Creating Ringtones in iTunes

After you buy a favorite song, you can turn it into a ringtone.

Note

You can convert only purchased songs into ringtones. If you burn songs from an audio CD and store them in iTunes, you won't be able to convert those songs into ringtones.

To turn a purchased song in iTunes into a ringtone, do this from your computer:

  1. Open iTunes on your computer.

  2. Click Music under the LIBRARY category in the left pane. A list of all your stored songs appears in the main iTunes window.

  3. Right-click a purchased song that you want to turn into a ringtone. A pop-up menu appears, as shown in Figure 18-1.

    Right-clicking a song displays a pop-up menu with the Create Ringtone command.

    Figure 18-1. Right-clicking a song displays ...

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