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 Posted:   Dec 9, 2018 - 7:05 PM   
 By:   scoreaholic   (Member)

I was wondering if anyoe knows if you can make a track from your music collection a ringtone on your phone. I have an iphone 6S if that helps. I listened to some ringtones that you could buy, but didn't like any of them. They were almost always badly orchestrated covers of the real thing. I want to hear the real thing when I get a call.

 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2018 - 8:28 PM   
 By:   Trent B   (Member)

If you know how to edit music and have a third party app that allows you to transfer it to your phone then yes.

iTunes use to be able to allow you to transfer custom ringtones but they don't anymore.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2018 - 8:37 PM   
 By:   Jim Cleveland   (Member)

Earlier this year I recorded "the 5 tones", and now have it as my ringtone!

 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2018 - 8:44 PM   
 By:   Dana Wilcox   (Member)

I was wondering if anyoe knows if you can make a track from your music collection a ringtone on your phone. I have an iphone 6S if that helps. I listened to some ringtones that you could buy, but didn't like any of them. They were almost always badly orchestrated covers of the real thing. I want to hear the real thing when I get a call.

I have successfully downloaded (though not created) free ringtones for my Android using an app called Zedge -- they have a lot of free downloadable ringtones that include some film music (e.g., "Ecstasy of Gold" from TGTB&TU, the "Darth Vader Theme" from Empire Strikes Back and some others).

Check out also this article:

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-make-custom-ringtones-for-your-iphone-android-or-windows-phone/

Let me know if it works! :-)

 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2018 - 8:58 PM   
 By:   BTTFFan   (Member)

1. Install Audacity
2. Install ffmpeg libraries into Audacity
3. Import your music flies into Audacity and edit your ringtone. Make sure track is less than 30 seconds long.
4. Export in the .m4a format.
5. Manually change .m4a extension to .m4r
6. Drag and drop into iPhone

 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2018 - 9:07 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

"I knew that. What makes you think I didn't know that?"

 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2018 - 9:08 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

Earlier this year I recorded "the 5 tones", and now have it as my ringtone!

You and Hugo.

 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2018 - 9:29 PM   
 By:   Mr. Jack   (Member)

I heard a Good, The Bad & The Ugly ringtone a year or two ago.

 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2018 - 9:31 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

I heard a Good, The Bad & The Ugly ringtone a year or two ago.

Heard HALLOWEEN recently. Perfect!

 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2018 - 9:49 PM   
 By:   Trent B   (Member)

1. Install Audacity
2. Install ffmpeg libraries into Audacity
3. Import your music flies into Audacity and edit your ringtone. Make sure track is less than 30 seconds long.
4. Export in the .m4a format.
5. Manually change .m4a extension to .m4r
6. Drag and drop into iPhone


Drag and drop into iPhone doesn't work anymore either. Trust me, I've tried...after I think 12.1 they eliminated it.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2018 - 10:06 PM   
 By:   Jim Cleveland   (Member)

I guess I should've been more detailed! I just held my tracfone about 5-10 feet away from my stereo speaker, and recorded "the 5 tones", and saved it as a ringtone!

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 10, 2018 - 1:16 AM   
 By:   Tobias   (Member)

On my previous phone I had the Main Titles from The Wind and The Lion as a ringtone. Now I do not have any film music related ringtone at all.

 
 Posted:   Dec 10, 2018 - 2:51 AM   
 By:   Nicolai P. Zwar   (Member)

I do this all the time. My main ringtone is currently "Hardcore Logo" by Alan Silvestri from PREDATOR 2, and the five note motif from CLOSE ENCOUNTERS is my "incoming message" sound. I chose the "Hardcore Logo" because it does have an actual "ringtone" feeling to it; I prefer not to use actual "melodic" music for my phone, because I don't want to think of my phone when I hear music.

What I also use (for various incoming messages) are the sound effects on the STAR TREK: GENERATIONS CD, so at times, my phone beeps and makes sounds like a Star Trek communicator. :-)

I have an S7, but I presume an iPhone can do the same.

 
 Posted:   Dec 10, 2018 - 4:07 AM   
 By:   Drawgoon   (Member)

I tried this several times in the past but realized this stuff is not audible enough to work as ringtone.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 10, 2018 - 6:44 AM   
 By:   brofax   (Member)

"I heard a Good, The Bad & The Ugly ringtone a year or two ago."

Interesting. A long time ago I installed the "Pocket watch chimes" from For a Few Dollars More on my phone and a few years ago I was travelling on a train in the UK and heard a phone behind me ring with GBU onboard.

 
 Posted:   Dec 10, 2018 - 7:48 AM   
 By:   panphoto   (Member)

Mine is Alfred Newman's incomparable 20th Century Cinemascope fanfare - what else! This glorious curtain-raiser is arguably the most recognised piece of music on the planet - and is just right length for a ring tone. I'm using the later version performed by a certain J Williams.

 
 Posted:   Dec 10, 2018 - 8:53 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

I find ringtones of any kind insanely annoying. I would even call it disturbing the peace and noise pollution. By law all phones should be on vibrate.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 10, 2018 - 8:57 AM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

I find ringtones of any kind insanely annoying. I would even call it disturbing the peace and noise pollution. By law all phones should be on vibrate.


I’ve used Twisted Nerve as a ringtone for about 10 years. Good job we don’t work together as my work landline defaults to my mobile as a matter of course. You’d have had us for constructive dismissal long before now!

 
 Posted:   Dec 10, 2018 - 9:06 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

I find ringtones of any kind insanely annoying. I would even call it disturbing the peace and noise pollution. By law all phones should be on vibrate.


I’ve used Twisted Nerve as a ringtone for about 10 years. Good job we don’t work together as my work landline defaults to my mobile as a matter of course. You’d have had us for constructive dismissal long before now!


True story, last week we had a company meeting and one of the employees ring tones went off while our superior was talking. She was not pleased and scolded the employee, but all of us in general about putting our phones on vibrate. Then she introduced a new employee she hired who is an acquaintance of hers. When the new hire got up to speak to us her ring tone went off and the volume was maxed out!

 
 Posted:   Dec 10, 2018 - 9:24 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

"I heard a Good, The Bad & The Ugly ringtone a year or two ago."

Interesting. A long time ago I installed the "Pocket watch chimes" from For a Few Dollars More on my phone and a few years ago I was travelling on a train in the UK and heard a phone behind me ring with GBU onboard.


Woulda been funny if they both went off at same time!

 
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