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Create a tone longer than 30 seconds

by Cosmonova / February 23, 2009 11:57 AM EST


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMA6_sngxv0

Hi everyone, we'd all like to have longer ringtones, not just the measly 30 seconds Apple provides. It's unbelievable that the phone with the best music player in the world doesn't allow you to select songs the way others do (Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, etc.). The fact that you have to buy ringtones and that iTunes' converter often fails to convert songs you've already purchased, or even songs you haven't, is insulting.

Therefore, here I bring you a tutorial to have the tones that we want of more than 30 seconds.


Well, iPhone users, we need:



Let's go there:


  1. We look for the song in iTunes and select it.

  2. Now, those of Windows and Mac without iRingtone, you give in information above the song with the right button, you are going to Options and you select the start and end square and in you have to select a maximum time of 30 seconds (example: start; 0:00 - End; 0:30) and you give to accept and then you return to give over the song and give to convert to AAC The song will appear where you have it configured.

  3. If you have iRingTone, you select the song, you start it and it will ask you to enter the second in which you want the tone to begin. After this, the solo will be added to the list of tones.

  4. Those of you who use the method with iTunes and have already copied to the desktop will have to rename the file so that it looks like this:tonename.m4r. You open it and it will appear in the iTunes ringtones list.


  5. Y synchronize your iPhone.
  6. Now with Transmit, Cyberduck or WinSCP you access your iPhone by ssh (I will not explain how it is done) and you go to the directory>> var / mobile / media / iTunes_Control / Ringtones / You need to locate the correct ringtone, as it no longer appears as a name but as letters. Find it and copy the filename.

  7. Find the song that you want to have in its entirety on your desktop and rename it so that it has the m4r extension (example: ABCD.m4r), remember to have changed it to ACC format beforehand otherwise you will not be heard.


  8. Now copy the new file that we have just renamed into the iPhone directory indicated above, accessing through the ssh programs. And we will have our tone of more than 30 seconds.

Problem: If we restore the iPhone or change the ringtone data in iTunes in any way or even if we delete the ringtone from iTunes, the iPhone will be resynchronized and we will lose the entire song. That is, for iTunes we still have a 30-second tone.