How to Make Your Own Free MP3 Ringtones

How to Make Your Own Free MP3 Ringtones

How to Make Your Own Free MP3 Ringtones
By: Rex Meneses

In this tutorial, We will guide you in the step by step process for making your own MP3 ringtones.

Tools you need:

* Cell phone that support MP3 ringtones.

* Music CD or MP3 Music File

* Any method of transferring the ringtones from computer to phone (USB, Bluetooth, e-mail, instant message, etc.)

* Audacity v1.3 beta

* Lame v3.96.1

* MP3 Converter (to convert audio cd file to mp3 format)

Instructions:

If you plan to create your MP3 ringtones from a CD, rip the song you want as a WAV (Windows) or an AIFF file (Mac). It's a good idea to specify a new ripping location, too, so the ripped song wont be mixed up with the rest of your collection. But if you're creating your ringtones from an MP3 song, you may want to copy that MP3 song into a new folder so that when we edit the MP3 the audio-editing software won't messed up your original MP3 song.

Now, If you don't have any of the above mentioned audio file types you can use your own Audio CD. But, you will need to use a separate software to convert them to MP3, Wave or AIFF. You can also download MP3 songs the Internet.

Once you have chosen the song to edit and converted it to our desired digital music format (whether WAV, AIFF or MP3), run your audio-editing software. In this case we will be using Audacity, it is free, open source and runs on both Mac and PC. If you don't have Audacity you can download a copy of the file here http://audacity.sourceforge.net/.

Also Audacity needs another separate program (actually its called library) for MP3 compression. We will be using Lame, LAME is an MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder, you can download Lame Library here http://lame.sourceforge.net/index.php . Once your download is complete you need to decompressed the file. Please take note where you decompressed the file.

So once you have all the tools we need, let's start!