Next, open up GarageBand and the Finder window. In GarageBand, you want to be creating a new song, so if it doesn’t by default, just go to “File -> New“, then New Project on the left and Loops on the right. Lastly, click Choose in the lower right corner.

In the new popup window, click “Create“.

Now switch over to your Finder window. Here, you’ll want to browse to the file you want to turn into a ringtone. Once you find it, simply drag it into GarageBand, and drop it into the Loops area in the center of your screen.

Once GarageBand has imported the track, we’re halfway there!

1. First, make sure the song is position correctly by clicking and dragging the track as far to the left as possible.

2. Now that we’ve done that, we want to trim the song down. Generally you want to use somewhere between 10 and 20 seconds so that the file size is easily used and manipulated. To trim your song down, just press the space bar to start listening to your track. When you find the part of the track you want to use as a ringtone, remember where it lies along the timeline at the top of the track. These marking make it easy to remember the section of song you want. 

3. Once you’ve decided, click at the beginning of the part you want to keep as your ringtone and click “Edit -> Split“. Now the song you imported will be split into two pieces. Delete the beginning piece that you don’t want. Now do the same for the part of the track that falls after where you want the song to end, and drag the remaining piece (which should be the part of the track or song you want to use as a ringtone) all the way to the left.

4. Now that you’ve got your ringtone ready, the last step is getting it onto your phone. To do this, first drag the scroll bar in GarageBand as far right as it can go and look for a little arrow in the timeline at the top of the window. This arrow signifies the end of your song, and you will just need to drag it to the left to where you want your ringtone to end, so that you don’t have a bunch of silence.

Now, we just need to save the ringtone to get it on your phone! This varies with phone type, but here are the most common ways to do it:

• If you have an iPhone, you may know that you can add ringtones from iTunes. This is super simple: in GarageBand’s Share Menu, just hit “Send Song to iTunes“, then add the ringtone to your iPhone through iTunes like you would for any other ringtone.
• If you have another smartphone, like an Android phone, just hit that same Share Menu, but then click Export Song to Disk. Then save the track as an MP3 and put it on your smartphone, and set it as a ringtone from there.
• If you don’t have a smartphone, sometimes the best way to get the ringtone to your phone is to send it as an MMS over email. To do this, create a new email in whatever email app or website you use, and address the email to your cell phone number. This address can vary depending on your carrier, but a quick Google search can give you what address you’ll need to use. The ringtone will come into your phone as an MMS, and you can usually save the audio from the MMS as a ringtone.

Do you have any questions or know  of another way to create your own ringtones on a Mac?  Let us know in the comments!

Luckily, it is very easy to add custom ringtones to your alarm clock, so you don’t have to wake up with the irritating buzzer alarm.

1. First connect your Android phone to the computer, via USB cable.

2. Mount your phone’s SD card to the computer.

3. Create a new folder call “alarms” (without the quotes) in the main directory of the SD card.

4. Copy all your favorite alarm clock ringtones to the folder.

5. Unmount the card.

6. Start the alarm clock app. You should now see your favorite ringtone in the selection field.

The same trick can also apply to the call ringtone and notification tone. Simply create two folders, “ringtones” and “notifications” and place the songs in them. They will appear in the respective settings of your phone.

The iTunes app store is just one of the many benefits of using the iPhone and it is amazing to see and use all the innovative applications being developed by third party developers.

However, if you talk about Apple as a company, they’ve had a pretty tight control over the iPhone platform and that is my only gripe with it. Apple’s control over the iPhone ecosystem is so much that they charge you to even create ring tones for the iPhone even if you have purchased the song legally through iTunes, and for a lot of people paying for ringtones is the only way to get ringtones for the otherwise excellent phone.

In today’s tutorial we’ll show you how you can create a ringtone for your iPhone for free using nothing but iTunes and a little perseverance.

To start with creating your own iPhone ringtone, open iTunes and select the song that you want to make a ringtone out of.

Right click and select “Get Info“. Go to the “Options” tab select a “Start Time” and “Stop Time” . This will ensure that iTunes will play the song starting from the “Start Time” to the “Stop Time”. Make sure that the stop time doesn’t exceed the start time by more than about 40 seconds. To be on the safer side, I usually keep the length at 30 seconds.

You can uncheck the start and stop time settings after you’ve created your ring tone.

Now, go to Edit->Preferences and in the General tab click on Import settings

And make sure that the AAC encoder settings are set to the following.

Now, right click on the song that you’d selected in the beginning and create an AAC version out of it.

You should now see two songs with the same name in iTunes but one of them would be of 30 seconds duration (or the duration that you chose for the ringtone), while the other one would be the full original song. We’re almost done now.

Select the newly created 30 second AAC version of the song in iTunes and press CTRL+C. Paste the song on your desktop (or any other folder) using the CTRL+V shortcut. This AAC version of the song will have the .M4A extension. Change it to .M4R.

Now, with the iPhone connected to your computer. Simply drag this file to the iPhone icon in iTunes.

That’s it. Your newly created ringtone should now be visible in the iPhone and you can start using it rightaway.