What is the format of sounds in iPhone. Maximum ringtone size for iPhone

Every day a very large number of people buy a new iPhone, but many do not even imagine how convenient they can be to use. After purchase, for many iPhone owners, setting up and installing ringtones for iPhone becomes a big problem.

One of the easiest ways is the iTunes Media Center. With it, you can edit any ringtone you like and set it to an incoming call or alarm without any effort.

1. You need to run iTunes on your PC or laptop.
2. Select a song by going to the iTunes library.
3. After hovering over the melody you need, right-click and select “Information”. In the “Details” item, go to the parameters and there you will see “Start” and “End”. Now you need to choose the passage that you like best. The important point is that your composition cannot exceed 30 seconds. To do this, you need to select a segment from the melody. For example, we set the intervals “Start” to 0:05, and “End” to 0:35. After all the above steps, press the OK button.
4. Now you need to right-click again on the melody you have selected and select “Create a version in AAC format.” After you click on the “Create AAC version” item, iTunes will begin processing your melody and create the segment of your choice. After processing is complete, your trimmed melody will appear next to the original.

5. The next step is to change the format from .m4a to .m4r. After which it will become a ringtone for iTunes.

6. Add a ringtone with two clicks to your iTunes library.
7. Connect your iPhone to iTunes and go to the Sounds tab where we check the “Sync sounds” box. After synchronization, your ringtone will be available to you on your iPhone.

8. Turn on the iPhone and go to the phone settings. Settings -> Sounds -> Ringtone and check the box next to your ringtone. The installation is complete and you now have a new ringtone for incoming calls.

Are you not satisfied with the ringtone of your iPhone 5s, iPhone 4, iPhone 5, iPhone 6 and so on? There is a way out. You can make a new one in iTunes and move it to your phone.

The process is not simple or complicated - the first time you will have to work a little, but the second time everything will go “automatically”.

You don't have to make a ringtone, but buy a snippet of the song from iTunes, although I'm sure most people prefer to choose a song, cut it appropriately, convert it to m4r format, throw it on the device and you're done.

We will do the same. Below are instructions on how to make a ringtone on an iPhone via iTunes in the latest version at the time of writing. It's 2017. In 2018, a new iTunes may appear with slightly different parameters.

How to make your own ringtone for iPhone using iTunes

If you want to create a ringtone for iPhone, please download the latest version of iTunes first. The iTunes method is quite effective, although it takes some time.

Launch iTunes on your computer. Make sure the song you want to turn into a ringtone is in your library.

If not, then go to the “Songs” tab and simply drag the desired music or voice recording there directly from your desktop - I chose mp3 format for the example.

Then right-click on the selected song and select Song Details.

In the new window, select "Options" and then check the "Start Time" and "Stop Time" boxes (make sure the total duration of the call is shorter than 40 seconds).

When everything is installed, click OK. Next, select the song, click “File” in the top left, hover over “Convert” and click “Create AA version.”

The song will appear in the list as a duplicate (the one below). Right-click on it again and select “Show in Windows Explorer.”

Rename the extension from .m4a to .m4r. If you don’t see the extension format, but only the name, then you should run “Folder Options” and make the extensions visible -

After changing the extension, go to iTunes and select the Sounds section. Now delete the first file from iTunes, and open the second one again in Explorer and click on it (on m4r) twice (quickly) - so add it to the library.

Check the “Synchronize sounds” option and click the “Synchronize” button so that the created ringtone is on your phone.

If, after synchronization, you see your new ringtone in the “Sounds” settings menu, then I congratulate you - you did everything correctly.

Some nuances when creating a ringtone on an iPhone via iTunes

I would like to say that making a ringtone through iTunes is not the best option, even with step-by-step instructions.

Why? Because the program is constantly updated: 12.5 -> 12.6 -> 12.7 and so on, therefore, difficulties may arise.

This is the end of today's guide. If you have questions, I will answer them in the comments below. Good luck.

Apple brand smartphones, also called iPhones, attract many buyers with their ease of use and design. This is a slim phone with many functions available to the user around the clock. It is released on the iOS operating system. In the mobile phone market, it is the main competitor of all Android phones.

All of us, smartphone users, love our phone to look unique - for this we use various personalization elements - menu design, wallpaper on the main screen, and, of course, the ringtone. But not all the tracks we like start loud enough or from the moment we would like. To do this, there are ways to trim the melody.

You can make a ringtone for iPhone 4, 5 using several programs (iTunes, iTools (OS X/Windows); (GarageBand (OS X); Fried Cookies’ Ringtone Maker (Windows), as well as online services.

Creating a ringtone for iPhone using iTunes

So, how to create a ringtone in iTunes:

1. Download and install the iTunes program on your computer.
2. We load the song that we want to cut for a phone call.
3. In the program interface, in the “Music” tab, find the required track.
4. Right-click on the desired song and select the “Information” section. Go to the “Parameters” tab.
5. In the Parameters tab we see the lines “Start” and “Stop time”. We check the boxes and assign these parameters at our discretion. For example: 0:35:00 and 0:01:05.
   • Tip: listen to the track in advance and determine the exact start and end time.
   • The maximum ringtone length for iPhone is 30 seconds.
6. Click OK and see the initial menu - a list of music tracks.
7. Right-click on the track again, then select “Create AAC version.” Now we have a file in the list with the same name as the song being trimmed, but its duration is 30 seconds.
8. Right-click on the resulting file and select “Show in Windows Explorer.” The folder in which our m4a file is located opens.
9. In order for iTunes to read the file, you need to change its name and format. Thus, our file, for example, song.m4a should become song.m4r. After saving we will see that the file icon will change. If the file format cannot be changed:
   • When our folder has just opened, press the Alt key - a menu appears at the top. Click Tools - Folder Options.
   • In the window that opens, go to the second tab (“View”), scroll down the list and uncheck the box next to the line “Hide extensions for registered file types” - Apply - OK.
10. When we have successfully changed the format, left-click on our music file, it should be played in the program.
11. After that, click on the “Music” button in the upper left corner - Sounds (Ringtone). Different versions of the program may have different names. We go to this tab and see our file there.
12. But the phone still can't read this file, so we need to sync the sounds.
    • Press the iPhone button. In the window that opens at the top we see many tabs: sounds, music, photos, videos and others.
    • Select the “Sounds” tab and check the box for our created ringtone.
    • Click the “Apply” button. We wait for the synchronization to complete, and the ringtone becomes available on the phone.
13. We go back to the “Music” tab using the button in the upper left corner and delete the 30-second file that was created, because it will only get in the way.
14. Don't forget that in the properties of our full-size track we set the duration to 35 seconds. In this case, if the track is in the playlist, it will automatically play from 35 seconds and continue for 30 seconds. We go to the “Information” section and in the “Parameters” tab, uncheck the time frames that we have specified, click “OK”.

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Creating a ringtone using ITools

You may find the interface of this program simpler. This is an alternative way to create a ringtone for iPhone 4, 5.

1. Download the ITools program and run it on your computer. Of course, our phone is already connected.
2. After connecting, a program window will appear. In the menu on the left, select the Media tab - “Ringtones” (with the bell icon).
3. At the top, on the panel that appears, find the bell icon and click.
4. In the window that appears, you can select any fragment of a melody up to 25 seconds long for SMS and up to 40 seconds for calls, we can listen to it right there. Set the frames and click the "Save" button.
5. In the window that appears, select the “Import to device” function. You can also save to PC, but this is at your discretion.
6. We finish working with the device and are satisfied with the new ringtone that has become available on the phone.

Ways to create ringtones online

There are several online services where you can make a ringtone for iPhone online. They all work this way:

• upload the track that we want to trim to the server;
• cut it off;
• the site provides a link to download the ringtone in two types of formats: .mp3 and m4r. One is for listening on the computer, if necessary, and the other is for setting it as a ringtone for our iPhone.

Here is a list of some of the most common online services where we can create our own ringtones.

Creations and on iPhone. But most of them require the use of a computer, which users cannot always afford. How to make a ringtone directly on your iPhone and immediately set it as a ringtone is described in this instruction.

Note that this method of creating ringtones on iPhone without a PC has existed for a very long time. However, not everyone could use it. This is because the GarageBand application, with which we will create a ringtone directly on the iPhone, was previously paid for most users. Recently, Apple has made it for absolutely everyone, thanks to which the method described in these instructions for creating a ringtone on an iPhone without a PC has become relevant for every user.

Also, before starting, it is necessary to note two disadvantages of this method. Firstly, the GarageBand application weighs 1.44 GB, which is why not all users will be able to keep it installed on their device. And secondly, unfortunately, you won’t be able to cut a ringtone from a song from the Apple Music collection using GarageBand.

Step 1: Install the app GarageBand on iPhone and launch it.

Step 2. Go to menu " Audio recorder" by scrolling to it on the main screen of the application.

Step 3. Click on the button with the image of layers in the upper left corner (shown in the screenshot below).

Step 4. Turn off the metronome by pressing the button with its image.

Step 5. Click on the button + » to the right of the recording track.

Step 6. In the window that opens “ Song section» select the item « Section A" and activate the switch " Automatically».

Step 7. Click on the loop icon in the upper right corner of the screen, select the “ Music».

Step 8. Find the song you want to make a ringtone from, hold your finger on it and drag it to the track on the main screen of the application.

Step 9. Click on the imported track to enter edit mode.

Step 10: Change the length of the song by moving the start and end edges of the track. Please note that the duration of the ringtone should be 30 seconds.

To create a ringtone as accurately as possible, zoom in on the track by stretching it with two fingers.

Step 11. Once the ringtone is created, click on the triangle (or “My Songs”) in the upper left corner. You'll be taken to a list of songs you've created in GarageBand.

Ready! Your ringtone has become available for installation in the " Settings» - « Sounds».

Still, Apple is a surprisingly paradoxical company. Here its head at the next presentation of the new i-device assures that this is the friendliest gadget in the world. But his user, who ( this is not the first hour) is trying to find an easy way to set your favorite ringtone on iPhone. And everything is in vain, because the “Apple” giant, creating the most understandable and convenient platform, also wanted it to be the safest and the most concerned about copyrights.

However, as we know, chasing several birds with one stone is rarely successful. However, Apple caught a couple of big-eared ones - iOS is indeed much less vulnerable than competitive platforms, and it protects copyrights better than others. But friendliness in this race suffered seriously. And at a time when users of other smartphones can put music on a call in two stages, the owner of an i-gadget has to perform much more manipulations.

Currently, for iPhone users without jailbreak (that is, not jailbroken), there are three ways that will help you install a ringtone on your iPhone. The first of them is creating a ringtone using iTunes on a PC and then synchronizing the smartphone and computer. This method is a real classic. The second is purchasing tracks on iPhone through the iTunes Store. And finally, the third method is to use third-party software that allows you to set a ringtone for an iPhone ringtone, without using iTunes or a computer.

Well, let's look at all the methods in order.

Installing music on a call using iTunes, frankly speaking, is not as difficult as they say, in the sense that no special knowledge or skills are required - just find instructions on the Internet and strictly follow them. Another question is that this is a rather tedious long process. However, you need to know the “classics”, and therefore we provide you with detailed instructions on how to install a ringtone on your iPhone using iTunes.

For convenience, we will divide the whole process into three stages:

• turning a track into a ringtone
• converting it to m4r format - the fact is that the iPhone “understands” only m4r ringtones
• sending a ringtone to iPhone and setting it as a ringtone

Turning a track into a ringtone

Convert to m4r format

Sending a ringtone to iPhone and setting it as a ringtone

So, before us is the third and most important stage - how to install the resulting melody on our iPhone?

You see, as we promised, the instructions are not complicated, but quite long.

Now let's look at faster ways.

How can I set a ringtone for an iPhone ringtone via the iTunes Store?

Of course, this method is much simpler than the first, but it has two significant drawbacks. Firstly, you will have to pay for ringtones from the iTunes Store; and, besides, the store’s catalog is, of course, huge, but it’s far from a fact that it will contain the melody you need.

However, if you are willing to pay, just not to go through the steps described in the previous instructions, and also if a certain melody is not very important to you, but just want something new, here is a guide for you - how to put a ringtone on an iPhone using the iTunes Store:

Look how simple everything is and, in fact, inexpensive; a ringtone costs 19 rubles on average.

How can I put my favorite song on my iPhone using third-party software?

It must be said that there are a number of programs and applications that allow you to set your music as a ringtone on an iPhone without iTunes, but some of them work only for devices with jailbreak, the other part is not very intuitive and easy to use and it’s easier to study native iTunes , after all, it is useful not only for setting a ringtone. However, we have nevertheless chosen for you one program and one application that give a simple and clear answer to the question of how to set a ringtone on an iPhone without iTunes. Let's figure out how to work with them:

GarageBand app

You can download this application in the official application store for i-technology - App Store. It is especially convenient because you do not need a PC to work with it.

How to make a ringtone using GarageBand? Follow these instructions:

This is an interesting way to put your music on your iPhone, let us remind you that it is especially attractive because you can do without a computer. However, it has a small drawback - the GarageBand application costs 379 rubles.

I know what you’re thinking, why is everything so complicated or not free? Well, “for dessert” we have prepared a simple and free way to make a ringtone on iPhone...

Waltr program + online music editing services

How to install music using Waltr? First we prepare the ringtone:

Now we reset it to the iPhone:

Yes! It's that simple! A great way, for which I would like to say a huge thank you to the developers who made WALTR.

Let's summarize

Well, now you know how to set your own ringtone for an iPhone and, I hope, you will agree with us - doing this is not as difficult as it seems at first glance. The main thing is to choose the method that suits you. Someone may say, why all these changed ringtones, after all, there are native ones, but we assure you that someday you will certainly get bored with them and you will want to change them and put your favorite song on your iPhone ringtone!