Also, in the digital measurement/timer display (directly between the main play button and the main volume display towards the bottom of the window) choose the clock icon to show the time of the song.Ĥ.
Drag the yellow bar to the 40 second mark to help you remember where your song will cut off. A yellow bar will appear at the top of the screen in GarageBand by the time. In GarageBand select the Share menu and choose ‘Send Ringtone to iTunes’ - a dialog box should appear warning you that your song needs to be 40 seconds or less, so click the Adjust button. The song will be imported and will be ready for you to edit.ģ. Switch back to iTunes, drag the song file from your iTunes window into the main gray area in GarageBand. Open GarageBand and create a new document, the default settings will do for what we want to work with. To check if your song format right-click or control-click on the file and select Get Info, the type will be displayed in the Kind field under the Summary tab.Ģ. If you try and import this type file you will get an error message in GarageBand. Make sure that your selected song is not in the protected AAC format which has Digital Rights Management imbedded in the file. Open iTunes and search your Library for the song you wish to create as a ringtone. You also need the latest version of iTunes and GarageBand - and of course you should make sure your iPhone software is up to date.ġ.
#TRANSFER GARAGEBAND RINGTONE MAC TO PHONE MAC OS X#
) To get started you need a Mac, the most recent version of Mac OS X is recommended. (You could remove the DRM by burning the track to an Audio CD, but we won’t cover that here. Your only limit is a 40 second time restraint and the inability to use a purchased iTunes song with Apple’s DRM on it. Of course for a simpler route you can use the popular shareware program iToner, however for this tutorial we are going to cover GarageBand. IPhone with software version 1.1.2 or higherīelieve it or not there is a free and relatively simple way to create iPhone ringtones from any iTunes song using Garageband.