adding custom ringttones to your iPhone

By Toonhead, 23 June, 2013

Forum
Windows

I recently ran into a situation I wanted to tell you guys about, and maybe the iTunes experts have an answer for me that I've not found yet. I wanted to add a custom ringtone to my iPhone. I looked on here and tried out Rmaker but couldn't really make heads or tales out of it. I've been told by several people that if you create a ringtone in the .m4r extention, and import it into iTunes and sync, the ringtone should be added and become a working ringtone on your phone. Well, as is usually the case, what should happen, and what does happen are 2 different things. I made a ringtone lasting 25 seconds long, and converted it to the .m4r format and imported it into iTunes successfully. It shows up in the ringtones playlist, so that's all taken care of. The trouble starts when I sync. Due to a bizarre story involving a stupid Verizon store representative that is too long to post here, the upshot is that my phone was accidentally plugged into, and synched on my friend's computer. He was given my phone, I got his and we had to switch. So now, iTunes doesn't recognize my library. I've been told by a few folks that the only way to get the custom-made ringtone onto this phone is to restore it and re-download everything and start over...and I am not about to do all that, simply to add a silly ringtone! I simply don't have that kind of time or patience. It's funny because when I plug my phone into the pc, it's recognized, I can even see it in the sources list and I can see all the associated playlists. So everything shows up just fine. So, iTunes experts, help me out here? I just want to put this ringtone on this phone without having to do a bunch of extra things. Any thoughts of what I can do would be appreciated! It's a ringtone so I'm not about to rip apart and start over, but if I can do it, I'd like to.
Thanks for any help.

Options