iPhone ringtones – not cool
Let me start and say: I love Apple. I love their products and their creative approach to everything.
BUT… their music industry partners have taught them some uncool tricks. The latest one is the iPhone ringtone service. With the new version of iTunes, you can take songs you purchased on iTunes (well, some of them at least) and convert them into ringtones for an additional $0.99
So far not cool but not that bad, considering all the music industry BS about how legally playing the song to anyone else is also a violation etc. But where it really gets annoying is that you can’t create ringtones from your own music files, and if you use a 3rd party app to do so, iTunes will delete them on the next sync. Meaning, If i created MY OWN music using, let’s say, Apples own Garage Band, I can’t use it as a ringtone on my iPhone. Just for the record, Most Cell Phones allow you to use any audio file on the device as a ringtone.
Steve, not cool!!!
Connaa | October 15, 2007,
I was consideing getting a iPhone and it just came to me… do iPhones even have a camera. I haven’t seen then on the adds. Thanks.
Connor M
Patricia | October 17, 2007,
Absolutely agree! All those endless ringtones are getting on my nerves. There are so many ways to get ringtones, except bying them for $0,99, that it becomes absolutely useless!
Manju | December 21, 2007,
Definetly their is point no point in wasting your $0.99.Their are plenty of other options where you can get them for FREE!
Jake | December 24, 2007,
@Connaa: Yes, but I’ve read many reviews that show it not having very good quality. Also, it can’t record videos.
Joel | October 6, 2008,
I hate ringtones – and I think the only reason people use them is because they are the only option phone-makes have given users to customize their phones. Best ringtones I’ve found are at http://www.iringpro.com . Just simple rings – not songs, not annoying sound fx. Mellow cool rings.
Burns4:20 | January 25, 2009,
there is a better way ive written it up below :
#ok this looks really long and complicated but its not and when you do it you will be away making ringtones lol
first of all if you need to make sure you can change the file extensions on your computer freely,
> got to “control panel”
> go to “folder options”
> “view” tab
> then you need to make sure that the box saying “hide extensions for known file types” is unchecked.
> “apply”
> “ok”
now open itunes.
> find the song you want as a ringtone.
> “right click” it and got to “get info”
> iphone ringtones can only be 30 seconds long, so using the “start” and “stop” times choose
which 30 seconds of the song you want.
> click “ok”
> now “right click” the song then “create aac version”
> this will dupilicate the song but you will se the time on the new version is 30 seconds
> find this song in the itunes folder or wherever you store your music (it will have the extension “m4a”)
> cut and paste it to the desktop
> “right click” the song on your desktop, go to properties
> in the song name it should show the song name and the file extension eg. “songname.m4a”
if it doesn’t have the “m4a” you need to repeat step 1
> change the “m4a” to “m4r” (im guessing the r means ringtone)
> click “apply/ok” you will get a pop up message asking if youre sure you want to change it just click “yes”
> notice the icon now says ring
> go back to itunes
> click “file”
> “add file to library” then choose the file from the desktop
> now you should automatically get an extra playlist thing called “ringtones” once you have this you dont have
to import anymore you cna just drag the modified tunes form the desltop to that playlist
notes
make sure to change you original track start and stop times to what they were
if your iphone is already plugged in you need to unplug then plug back in for the ringtones to apear on it,
Hope this helps peeps.