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Make a ringtone from a video

Pick the part you want, keep it short, and save it.

Ringtones are capped at about 40 seconds on most phones, so it opens with a 40 second clip you can drag along the track or resize.

Drop a video or audio file here, or open a file
Nothing is uploaded. The file is read straight off your disk.

Getting it onto the phone

The clip is the easy part; installing it is where phones differ. Android lets you copy an MP3 or M4A into the Ringtones folder and pick it in Settings. iPhone does not accept a ringtone file from a browser at all — it has to be installed through a desktop sync or a companion app, which no web page can do. If you are on iPhone, save the clip here and finish the job in that app.

Why a fade matters

A clip cut straight out of the middle of a song starts and ends on whatever the waveform happened to be doing, which is usually a click. A short fade at each end removes it. Fades here are 30 milliseconds unless you are cutting on silence, which is short enough that you will not hear it as a fade — only as the absence of the click.

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Questions

How long can a ringtone be?
Around 40 seconds on Android and 30 on iPhone. Longer files usually still play but get cut off when the call is answered.
Which format should I pick?
M4A if your phone accepts it, because it copies the audio without re-encoding. MP3 is the safer choice on older Android phones and on anything that plays from an SD card.