How To Make Your Own Custom Mp3 Ringtone With Audacity
Posted by: dragonblogger // Category: Consumerism, TechnologyI had wondered how to get free ringtones on my wife’s and my own blackberry devices when I tried various web sites that worked, but were slow or required too much time or didn’t have the songs I was looking for. When someone told me that I could create my own from any mp3 with Audacity I decided to try it out. When I realized how simple it was and that it worked, I decided this would be the next topic for my screencast demonstrations.
- Pre-requisites:
- Your phone must accept mp3 ringtones, there are ways to make midi / amr ringtones but not with this tutorial
- Your phone must be setup to receive email from gmail, yahoo, blackberry, or some other email service
- You should download and install audacity on your computer, this is freeware you can get here: Audacity 1.3.7 (I do recommend the beta 1.3 version as the 1.2 version was crashing on my Windows Vista frequently.)
- Make sure you install and configure the LAME mp3 encoder as well, read the website instructions.
So go ahead watch the video on how to turn an mp3 file into an mp3 ringtone, this will work for any mobile phone that accepts mp3 file format for ringtones, in my case I use it with Verizon Blackberries, but it shouldn’t matter whatever service you have.
Here are step by step instructions for those too lazy to watch the video or wanting to read it quickly:
- Open Audacity
- Load your MP3 file you wish to edit
- Find the section of mp3 file you want to turn into a ringtone (choose 20 seconds as a good length, some can take up to 40 seconds, but 20 seconds is best)
- Trim out all of the mp3 section you don’t want (Delete the before and after the places you have marked)
- Apply Fade In and Fade Out (optional) if you want your ringtone to fade in slowly and fade out volume wise so it isn’t so abrupt
- Export file as MP3 (you must have installed the Audacity LAME MP3 Encoder)
- Email the mp3 file as an attachment to the email address that your mobile device checks.
- Open the attachment and save it in your ringtones folder
- Set it as your ring tone
- Test it.
Thats it, it is very simple and you can create any number of ringtones for free. You aren’t limited to songs, you can create people’s voices, sayings, quotes, readings…etc. Virtually any audio file can become a personal ringtone now.
Here is the Iron Man mp3 Ringtone if you want to use it:Â ironman-ringtone
Let me know if this post was helpful to you by leaving me a comment.
-Dragon Blogger
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March 1st, 2009 at 5:50 pm
That is too cool, especially since audacity is free!
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March 1st, 2009 at 8:00 pm
That is a great tool! Thanks for the info. I had wondered how to but never thought it would be that easy.
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March 1st, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Thanks for being in my top EC droppers in February 09. God bless you!
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March 11th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
I use online tool http://makeownringtone.com
it’s a way easier than Audacity for me.
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October 28th, 2009 at 3:15 am
That is too cool, thanks. mp3 dinle
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November 7th, 2009 at 3:23 am
Thanks for this tutorial. I hate it when free ringtones are never the good songs or the good parts of the songs we like. it’s all well and good to be free but if the tones aren’t good ones it doesn’t matter if they are free or not no one will want them. Now we can create our own it’s awesome and not so hard if you have all the things you need. This can be creative and fun and even better you can make something that no one else has on their phone because you have made it just the way you want it. This is going to be the most popular way to get ringtones soon so those selling them will need to really pick up their game to compete.
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December 18th, 2009 at 8:25 am
I love Audacity but never thought of it as a way to make ringtones. Cool suggestions and necessary tutorial…Audacity took me awhile to get used to…
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December 19th, 2009 at 10:39 am
I just bought my blackberry and would definitely follow your instructions on uploading my fave songs thru Audacity.
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December 20th, 2009 at 10:54 am
That is a relevation! It will save me a load of money, as I usually have to pay for any ringtones that I wish to download!
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December 21st, 2009 at 6:41 am
I absolutely love Audacity! I love any free, or free-to-trial software. It just opens up the doors to small beginners or developers to really help develop the leadership and grassroots of any hobby, be it sound recordings or in this case, ringtone making!
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December 28th, 2009 at 11:06 am
Awesome guide and the video was really helpful as well! Many thanks.
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January 4th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
I love your post so much! Since I am fond in downloading videos and musics and put it in my phone. This is a very good guide for me.
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January 6th, 2010 at 5:50 pm
Very clear. Thanks for these instructions. Will try it.
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January 8th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
Cool man! I just got a new blackberry, so that’s great. I am gonna definitely check out and download Audacity. Thanks.
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January 12th, 2010 at 6:40 am
Wow excellent guide! Especially Audacity is free and works on various OS.
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January 21st, 2010 at 9:20 am
Everyone here of course knows, that it is possible to record their own woices or instruments with Audacity? Connect eg. a microphone to your computer and record your own personal message while running Audacity.
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January 24th, 2010 at 2:21 am
Thanks for guide for lazy ones because I am one of them and I didnt need to watch that long video.
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February 25th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
You can also use bluetooth instead and receive the file directly.
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February 28th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
Thankfully there are quite a few free audio editors that you can download to enable you to make MP3 ringtones.
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March 2nd, 2010 at 10:48 pm
thanks for the info, I already download audacity create ringtone . I was searching something else and I found you on Google. M lucky guy.
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March 3rd, 2010 at 6:09 pm
Free and works cross platform to?
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March 3rd, 2010 at 7:37 pm
Yes, free and cross platform.
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March 31st, 2010 at 6:55 am
I found this Audacity somehow difficult to use. Too many steps to follow, But it worked
Thanks again.
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April 6th, 2010 at 2:16 am
Hey dragonblogger, I have actually had a play with Audacity in the past and found it pretty good, no so difficult to use if you have a little technical know-how…may be tough for complete beginners though.
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April 6th, 2010 at 8:13 am
Wow, very cool!
I never had a smartphone, so I’m not sure exactly how ringtones work with those, but with my standard phone, the default is having to buy the ringtone. There is a method of outsmarting that (sending your phone mailbox an mp3 file), but most people don’t know it and it took me quite a while to discover.
So the technique you describe should be usable with this as well.
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April 20th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
Audacity is great and easy to use once you get used to those top left things. Thats brilliant to set up ring tones.
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April 21st, 2010 at 10:46 pm
Great post; I never thought of using Audacity to create a ring tone before; I simply used it to record songs like with me singing and playing the guitar. But now thanks to you my ring tone is me playing the guitar and singing about being drunk! It’s awesome and all my friends are jealous!
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April 22nd, 2010 at 7:17 am
Thanks for guide for lazy ones because I am one of them and I didnt need to watch that long video.
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April 22nd, 2010 at 8:32 pm
Audacity is great and easy to use once you set it up
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April 27th, 2010 at 10:42 am
Thanks for this helpfull information.
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April 30th, 2010 at 7:44 am
Hello! I just want to know how to remove the voice and just the background music to be played. Can I do it on audacity?
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April 30th, 2010 at 8:14 am
No, because you would have to get access to the music file where it was multi-track and you can remove the audio track. MP3′s have all tracks merged into single track, so you can’t strip out just vocals easily from an MP3 file.
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May 4th, 2010 at 11:06 am
Will these software work for iPhone?
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May 4th, 2010 at 11:10 am
Yes, they should. If iPhone accepts .mp3 ringtones
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May 17th, 2010 at 12:06 am
Excellent thank you for taking the time to show us how this is done with Audacity
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May 17th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Worked like a champ!!
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May 26th, 2010 at 12:25 am
Thanks for this tutorial. I hate it when free ringtones are never the good songs or the good parts of the songs we like
it is pretty good
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May 26th, 2010 at 2:05 am
Awesome guide and Video, Never thought that this is possible, Audacity is also free. Many thanks for the tutorial and video.
Regards
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June 16th, 2010 at 5:57 pm
It sounds like an awesome program. I will give it a try.
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June 18th, 2010 at 12:38 pm
Woot thanks for the great videot ip, now I’ll finally have something different than the standard ringtones!
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June 22nd, 2010 at 8:12 pm
Try using some effects pedal with your recording in audacity. It can add some much needed ambiance.
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July 8th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
Thanks for guide for lazy ones because I am one of them and I didnt need to watch that long video.
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July 11th, 2010 at 7:26 am
I hate about every standard ringtone and I refuse to use songs as a ringtone, so I guess I should really give this a go!
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July 11th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
I ripped the Black Sabbath Iron Man introduction as my ring tone.
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July 12th, 2010 at 1:14 am
this audacity thing is fine but somewhat looks complicated for the average joe to run over with. so not unless if you’re an experienced pro-tools user this might be easy, but for first times, cutting/pasting an audio file is already “strenuous”.
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July 23rd, 2010 at 5:34 am
I just beginning to work with Audacity. Thanks for well defined steps, let me have go at creating my own ringtone.
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July 24th, 2010 at 9:28 am
Wow…amazing..thanks for that..! now i know which software would i used to make ring tones on my own..!
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August 4th, 2010 at 7:53 am
Dragon Blogger, I really appreciate that tutorial for the ringtones. I have audacity on my computer and do use it on occassion for video voice overs but I always felt as though I was just barely getting lucky not screwing up for just that. Now watching the video for the ringtones and seeing how easy it can be, I feel like I should apply to NASA. Thanks again.
Mark
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