Turn an MP3 into a iPhone Ringtone

      1 min read      editmentary      ffmpeg · iphone · rington · howto

Shameless reminder to myself for the FFMpeg command to convert a MP3 to a M4R

#Mac
ffmpeg -i input.mp3  -c:a aac -f ipod -b:a 96k output.m4r


# Ubuntu found on https://coderwall.com/p/df1hwg/create-iphone-ringtones-with-ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i Input.mp3 -c:a libfdk_aac -f ipod -b:a 96k output.m4r

Resources

Download FFMpeg

OR

brew install some digital media goodness

# Install FFMpeg (with all available libs)
brew install ffmpeg $(brew options ffmpeg | grep -vE '\s' | grep -- '--with-' | tr '\n' ' ')

# Create thumbnails from video
brew install ffmpegthumbnailer

# Media player that playsback almost anything. https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_Features_Formats/
brew install vlc

# Display techincal info and embedded metadata about media files.
brew install media-info

# Open source audio and video processing tools
brew install libav

# Image manipulation (with all available libs)
brew install imagemagick $(brew options imagemagick | grep -vE '\s' | grep -- '--with-' | tr '\n' ' ')

# Command-line program to download videos
brew install youtube-dl

# Retrieve files using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS
brew install wget

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