{"id":5332,"date":"2008-05-15T15:01:16","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T14:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-use-any-mp3-file-as-a-free-iphone-ringtone\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:31:08","slug":"how-to-use-any-mp3-file-as-a-free-iphone-ringtone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-use-any-mp3-file-as-a-free-iphone-ringtone\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use any MP3 file as a free iPhone ringtone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I showed you how to <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-create-free-customized-ringtones-for-the-iphone\/\">create your own customized ringtones<\/a> for the iPhone using a handy software tool called ToneShop. But I recently discovered a very simple trick that enables you to convert your favorite MP3 into an iPhone ringtone right from the iTunes interface, without any third-party apps.<\/p>\n<p>Launch iTunes and choose any MP3 you like. As the maximum ringtone length supported by the iPhone is 30 seconds, you&#8217;ll have to trim it a bit (don&#8217;t worry, this trimming doesn&#8217;t change your original song and can be reverted at any time). Right click on the file, select <em>Get info<\/em> and click on the <em>Options<\/em> tab. Insert the file&#8217;s start and stop time and click on <em>OK<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/05\/mp3-iphone-01.jpg\" alt=\"use any MP3 file as a free iPhone ringtone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now go back to your Library, right click on your chosen MP3 and select <em>Convert selection to AAC<\/em>. You&#8217;ll get an AAC file with exactly the same name under the highlighted file. Open a File Explorer window and browse to your iTunes music folder (usually <code>C:\\Documents and Settings\\username\\My documents\\My music\\iTunes\\iTunes Music<\/code>). Locate the song you just converted, which will appear now as an <strong>M4A<\/strong> file, and change the extension to <strong>M4R<\/strong>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/05\/mp3-iphone-02.jpg\" alt=\"use any MP3 file as a free iPhone ringtone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As soon as you change the file&#8217;s extension, it&#8217;ll appear as an iTunes ringtone that you can import into iTunes straight away with just a double click. The new ringtone will be show up on the iTunes interface, ready to be synced to your iPhone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/05\/mp3-iphone-03.jpg\" alt=\"use any MP3 file as a free iPhone ringtone\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I showed you how to create your own customized ringtones for the iPhone using a handy software tool called ToneShop. But I recently discovered a very simple trick that enables you to convert your favorite MP3 into an iPhone ringtone right from the iTunes interface, without any third-party apps. Launch iTunes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-use-any-mp3-file-as-a-free-iphone-ringtone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to use any MP3 file as a free iPhone ringtone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-5332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336119,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions\/336119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5332"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=5332"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=5332"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=5332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}