How to make apple song a ringtone

Are you bored with your iPhone's default ringtone? Now it is time to make custom ringtones for your iPhone!

Of course, you can buy ringtones directly from the iTunes Store, but don't have to spend money on it. That's because it is possible to make your custom ringtone for iPhone for free. If you already own the music, you can easily create your ringtones for your iPhone with GarageBand. The process is straightforward, send your ringtone directly to iTunes. Once your ringtone is in iTunes music library, sync your iPhone, then go to Settings > Sounds on your device to set your new tone.

How to make apple song a ringtone

Why Can't Make iPhone Ringtone with Apple Music?

Apple Music is just Apple's music streaming service. When you sign up for Apple Music, the streaming service comes with a three-month free trial. You can get all its premium services: stream all your music to any compatible devices, including iPhone, iPad, or PC, or download songs to listen to offline.

In general, iPhone only supports the M4R ringtone format, a variant of the M4A audio file type. However, Apple Music is streamed at 256Kbps in AAC format. So, if you want to set Apple Music files to your iPhone ringtone, you should convert Apple Music to M4A firstly.

Part 1. Convert Apple Music with Apple Music Converter

Apple Music Converter is a powerful Apple Music conversion tool recommended for you. With it, you can convert Apple Music songs to unprotected audio formats, such as MP3, AAC, AIFF, WAV, and FLAC. In this way, you can import the converted Apple Music files to iTunes and set them as your iPhone ringtone.

Why Choose Apple Music Converter

  • Convert Apple Music songs to MP3, AAC, AIFF, FLAC or WAV with original quality retained.
  • No need to install iTunes or Apple Music App; keep ID3 Tags and metadata.
  • Convert Apple Music at 10X faster speed.
  • Play Apple Music on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android Tablets, Xbox One, PS4, etc.
  • Fully compatible with the latest Windows 11 & macOS 11 Big Sur.

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Step 1 Install and Run the Apple Music Converter on PC

Launch Apple Music Converter and click "Open Apple Music Web Player", then you can follow the indicates to log into your Apple ID.

How to make apple song a ringtone

Step 2Choose the Output Format

Click the settings icon, then you can choose the output format there. Besides, you can also set output path to place the output files.

Here you can select AAC or MP3 as the output format for your iPhone. You can also choose Output Quality and Output Organized as you like.

How to make apple song a ringtone

Step 3Add Apple Music to Apple Music Converter

Choose a playlist, artist, or album and open it, then click the Add button at the bottom right corner. You will see a pop-up dialog that will display all the songs that you can convert. Just select the songs you want to convert.

How to make apple song a ringtone

Step 4Start to Convert Apple Music songs

Now click Convert button to start converting Apple Music tracks at fast speed.

How to make apple song a ringtone

Part 2. Set Apple Music songs as iPhone Ringtone on Windows

Now you can turn a track from Apple Music to ringtone for your iPhone with the following tutorial:

1. Launch iTunes and select a song from the history folder you want to make for iPhone ringtone. Right-click it and select Get Info to go on.

2. Turn to Options from the pop-up window, select the specific clip by setting the start time and stop time, then click OK.

How to make apple song a ringtone

3. Click File on menu bar and choose Convert > Create AAC Version, there will be a copy in your iTunes library. Now you can listen to the AAC version to check it is correct or not.

How to make apple song a ringtone

4. Choose the copy and right click it and then select Show in Windows Explorer, a pop-out window will ask you to rename the newly created file. Click Yes to rename it and change the format into .m4r. And then go back to iTunes and delete the shortened version of the song.

5. Go to File, Add File to Library in iTunes. Find the files you just created and add it to iTunes' Tones library.

How to make apple song a ringtone

6. Connect iPhone to computer and select Sync Tones to sync it with iTunes.

7. On your iPhone, go to Settings > Sounds > Ringtone and your custom ring will be above the built-in ones. Now you can select it to make the converted Apple Music tracks to a custom ringtone on iPhone successfully.

Note: The free trial version of the TunePat Apple Music Converter enables you to convert the first three minutes of each song and convert 3 music files at a time. If you want to unlock the time limitation, you can purchase the full version of Apple Music Converter from $14.95.

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How to make apple song a ringtone

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Can I use a song from Apple Music as a ringtone?

To set a song as your ringtone it needs to saved in your Files app or must be purchased and downloaded on your phone. You can't use songs that you just have saved on Apple Music or another streaming service such as Spotify.