Wow I didn’t know this, but if you are an iPhone owner, making your own ring tones is really easy. I balk at ring tone prices for feature phones, which I think is a rip off and usually find ways to hack my own .. for the sake of bucking the system. Ok, are you ready for the instructions?
Step 1: If the audio piece you want as your ring tone is not already a file with an .m4r extension, (e.g. if you have an mp3), then use whatever free sound editor to clip the section you want and convert it into an .m4r file.
Step 2: Plug your iPhone to your computer, fire up iTunes, then drag ‘n drop the file onto iTunes.
Step 3: (that’s it, there isn’t anymore steps)
Now .. if it was this easy to make ring tones for all phones, mobile ring tones would probably ceast to be the #1 source of data revenue for mobile operators.
p.s. if you follow TED (which no cool person does not), you’ll be pleased to know that they have their classic intro music as a ring tone .. all ready to go for iPhones in an M4R file. Interview with the piece’s composer.
