Turn Your Music Into an iPhone Ringtone

Scenario: "Ring Ring" just won't cut it anymore for your cellphone
Solution: Turn your favorite tunes into ringtones for your iPhone using Garage Band



From expressing your inner-self to pissing off an entire train-full of people, custom cellphone ringtones can fulfill a wide range of roles.

One such role has always been to make the cell phone carriers and ringtone companies an awful lot of money. Selling somebody a 20 second snippet of a song they already own for 2 bucks a pop just so they can put it on their phone was an ingenious business model, but now there's a way around it.

The example I'm showing today is specifically for the iPhone owners and Mac users. It's possible to do this for other devices but this particular solution is quick, graceful and a shining lesson in how to make something that's genuinely intuitive and useful.

Within five minutes you can take any of your music mp3s, import them into a program called Garage Band (which comes free with most Macs), edit a snippet of the song for your ringtone and then upload it to your phone. Check out the video above for a full walk through.