How do I add a ringtone without syncing the rest of my phone??

I recently bought a mac, and got my own apple ID (up to now my mother, sister, and I have all been using the same one). If I sync my phone to my mac I lose most of my stuff and what a pain in the butt it would be to pay to get all of that back on my phone. I found that for music, the "autofill" button is a way around syncing since I never really use music on my phone except for running. But now I downloaded a new ringtone, that was not through iTunes and it will no longer let me click and drag to add it to my phone. Is there any other way that you know of to add a ringtone to an unsynced phone?

Copy the entire /Music/iTunes/ folder from your other computer to /Music/ on your Mac and your iPhone will sync fine.
Make sure to authorize your computer for the old iTunesID.

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