m4r and m4a are just variants of MP4 multimedia files, so you actually do not need to convert them via m4r to m4a conversion, because renaming of the suffix should be enough. Anyways, any decent multimedia tool should recognize MP4 container regardless of the actual file suffix.
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Conversion of m4r file format to m4a file format beta
Search for m4r to m4a converter or software able to handle these file types.
Convert Apple iPhone ringtone format to MPEG-4 compressed audio.
We have found 6 software records in our database eligible for .m4r to .m4a file format conversion.
Microsoft Windows software 
- convert m4r to m4a on Windows
Apple iTunes for Windows
Multimedia file manager and library for Apple users
File extension | Convert | Open | Save | Edit | Create | Import | Export | Extract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Convert from m4r file | Yes, Apple iTunes for Windows supports m4r file conversion as a source file type. | Yes | Yes | m4r editor | Yes | No | Yes | No |
to m4a file | Yes, Apple iTunes for Windows supports m4a file conversion as a target file type. | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
The tables with software actions are a good pointer for what a certain program does with various file types and often may give users a good hint how to perform certain file conversion, for example the above-mentioned m4r to m4a. However, it is not perfect and sometimes can show results which are not really usable because of how certain programs work with files and the possible conversion is thus actually not possible at all.
WavePad
An audio editing software for Windows and Mac
Apple macOS / Mac OS X software 
- convert m4r to m4a on OS X
Apple iTunes for Mac
Program used to organize and plays your digital music and video
Xilisoft iPhone Ringtone Maker for Mac
A iPhone ringtone creator for Mac
Tiny Audio Converter
Audio converter for Mac
Apple iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch devices) software 
- convert m4r to m4a on iOS
Ringtone Maker for iPhone
A free utility used to create ringtones directly in iPhone
Additional links: Open m4r file, Open m4a file
M4R
An m4r file extension is used for ringtones that is used by Apple iPhone. iPhone ringtones are stored in the same m4a audio format as songs. However m4r file extension is used to differentiate ringtones and songs.
M4A
FIles with m4a extension are audio files stored in MPEG-4 (MP4) container and use AAC (Advanced Audio Coding), or Apple Lossless (ALAC) audio compression. M4A is very popular on Mac computers, because it is default audio format used by iTunes. M4A is also default audio format for Apple portable devices (iPod, iPhone, iPad).
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