Making a Ringtone

Good Morning. I'm trying to make a ringtone for my wife's new iPhone. I've downloaded the iTunes help explanation and tried to follow the instructions. Ringtones is checked under General preferences. But when I click on the little bell icon, I just get the "Learn More about Ringtones" page. If I highlight the song I want to use, Ringtones under Store isn't active. I've downloaded the song I want to use, and can then access the Ringtone Editor, but then it appears I'm going to have to buy the song a second time in order to create a ringtone. What's the secret step I'm missing for activating the Create Ringtone function under Store? Appreciate any help you can provide.

Why pay for the song and then pay again to use a portion as a Ringtone?
Because the record companies demand a separate payment to use the track as a ringtone. The consider the right to listen to a track and the right to use it as a ringtone to be two separate rights requiring two separate payments.
If that was the case, wouldn't the Help instructions clearly say ...
It sure could be more explicit, but it does say "If you don't see the bell column in your iTunes library" which implies that one would have to have purchased the track for it to appear in your library. It's not explicitly clear, though, granted.
Anyway, you do have to buy the track first.
Regards.

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Hi roope70,
Thanks for your feedback.
While I can see how you would ask why these limitations in general it seems safe to assume a ringtone will sound for less than 40 seconds before you pick up, so having longer ringtones would not have any practical use and the track(s) would only take up additional space.
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Ok I've seemed to follow the steps in making custom Ringtones but....

I have followed all of the steps correctly from a previous post, and created a few ringtones in itunes, but when I try to sync, they don't show up on my phone. I tried deleting the .m4a file and it still did not show. Someone had mentioned that the ringtone will appear in the "Custom" section...where exactly is this section on the iphone?

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Hi roope70,
Thanks for your feedback.
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Creating a ringtone is very easy, you can use the free app 'Ringtone Factory' to select and cut the section you want to use. Besides this app you will find many similar apps in Marketplace.
Hope this helps,
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HT201401 I have my a song purchased from Itunes and would like to use part of it for a ringtone and get all the way thur the process of getting it to my phone but it goes to sync to my phone it doesn't show up in my phone like it says it is suppose to und

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