Tutorial: Ringtones over 30 seconds on iPhone

Hello everyone, we would all like to have ringtones for iPhone longer than just Apple's measly 30 seconds. It is incredible that the phone with the best music player in the world does not allow you to select songs as others do (Nokia, Motorola, Samsung…). Also the fact of having to buy the tones and that in many cases the iTunes converter does not convert previously purchased or non-purchased songs, is insulting.

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

Well family we need:

  • iTunes
  • iRingTone (for Mac, optional)
  • Cyberduck or Transmit (Mac), WinSCP (Windows)
  • iPhone with JailBreak

Let's go there (then I tell a joke in the Arguiñano style):

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

    1. 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.

    1. 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.

    1. 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.


    1. Y synchronize your iPhone.
    2. 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 / and you have to locate the tone that is because the name no longer appears but LETTERS. You look for it and you copy it to the desktop or you copy the name of the file.

    1. 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)

  1. 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.

Why do we want to do this if we have MiVTones? Well, because with this mod we can NOT use songs for the alarm.


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  1.   RMS said

    Excellent tutorial !!
    It works perfectly, it is appreciated

    regards

  2.   Juan Carlos Martinez said

    here I found another tutorial to change the tones
    http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dhchth32_278c3h7tdfs

    regards

  3.   Koroner666 said

    The tutoring is very interesting….
    Works perfectly
    Salu2

  4.   Uchihajorg said

    I have a very simple method for a jailbroken iPhone.
    All you need is iTunes, a program for our pc or Mac with an SSH connection and openssh on our iPhone.

    From iTunes, on any song, right click and select the option to create AAC version.

    We go to the folder where the iTunes songs are saved and we rename the song to .m4r

    We open the SSH client, and access the path / Library / Ringtones /
    Here we paste our tone and it will appear in iTunes as if it were a tone that incorporates the iPhone as standard, and of the length, size and quality that we want.

    That,
    Uchihajorg

  5.   Mundi said

    Leito, that is what I have published to make the first tone without iringtone

  6.   Mundi said

    uchibajorg, your method is better, thanks, it's easier

  7.   KiToLi said

    I see this system somewhat complex. There is a program called ifunbox, which allows you to access the guts of the iphone by classifying it by folders, to add tones of more than 30 seconds, complete songs, just convert the file and rename it to m4r and put it inside the ringtones folder.

    Simple, straightforward and for the whole family!

    Salu2

  8.   DOnvite said

    UchihaJorg approved your method, very simple.

  9.   ALEX_RIV said

    Hi guys, I problem the one that Leito explains and come on, you can have the whole song, it's super easy, greetings to all and thanks for the tutorial, greetings, try it

  10.   goyo said

    FANTASTIC TUTORIAL !!! BIG BIG

  11.   BETTYSHA said

    I JUST GOT THE IPHONE THREE DAYS AGO AND THE VDD DIDN'T TELL HIM ANYTHING I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO USE IT AND I AM DESPERATE IF SOMEONE CAN HELP ME THANK YOU ATTE DESPERATELY MY MSGR IS BETTYSHA_AHIME@HOTMAIL.COM

  12.   MARIANNY said

    I did not understand this part that explains UchihaJorg ... We open the SSH client, and access the path / Library / Ringtones /
    what is that?? How do I get in? = s

  13.   alexis lopez said

    Excellent post that you threw yourself did not find a way to find ringtones but this is the easiest, with itunes

  14.   vicmac said

    It works very well, but… And the Arguiñano joke ???

    😉

  15.   George said

    Well, I fear a phone, I'm tired of that repiq, it will be possible for you to put music on calls.

  16.   Juanjo said

    I don't know why people say "excellent", "wonderful tutorial" when they are not, it is an impressive mess to follow the manual, and it is full of inaccuracies and phrases like "this you should know" or "I am not going to explain it" Wouldn't it be better to put a link and not put any personal comment? There are ways to do this, a few, some simpler than others, but when you learn to do it and read these types of manuals, you realize how little work it is.
    regards!

  17.   jose said

    Easier find:

    1. Download the favorite song.
    2. Cut your favorite section with PowerSound Editor (free).
    3. Convert the resulting file to .M4A with Fremake audio conveter.
    4. Rename the file extension in Windows Explorer.
    5. Drag the file to Itunes> Ringtones
    6. Synchronize.