You can add your own ringtones made from any song you have burned from a CD. This includes iTunes store protected files that you have burned to audio CD.
- Click on the track in your iTunes library to highlight it.
- Play the track and note the times where you'd like the clip to start and stop.
- Press ⌘-i to open the information pane.
- Choose Options and change the start and stop times. Make sure their boxes are checked.
- Click OK.
- From the menu choose Advanced>Convert Selection to AAC.
- Highlight the track in your library. It will have a much shorter length than the original.
- Drag this track to your desktop.
- Delete the shortened track from your iTunes library.
- Click once on the file name of the track on your desktop. Click again. Change the extention from m4a to m4r.
- Click on a blank area of desktop.
- Click Use m4r.
- Drag the m4r track from your desktop back to the iTunes icon on your dock.
- Connect your iPod and select it from the Library list.
- Click on the Ringtones Tab.
- Check the Sync Ringtones tab.
