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Apple Adds Ringtone Support to iTunes
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I just made my ringtone. Making it was easy, but getting all the bell icons and stuff in the sidebar wasn't. I had to pull a command-j and select ringtones. Only about 15 songs of mine were available, so I chose "Popular" by Nada Surf. I figured it's suiting ("I'm popular" as the phone rings).
I really don't get the mentality of paying for a tune you already own to have the 'privilege' of it as a ringtone. You can do it for free with every other phone via Bluetooth or USB. Not sure this will light any fires in the UK here...
Is this a UK thing? Cos it seems insane to pay (again) for a ringtone like that. IMO you'd have to have more money than sense (yes I know it's only a dollar but it still seems crazy)
On my SE's, I just make an ringtone from any old mp3. Or even just stick the whole song on there
yeah i gave that a try too. rather funny. but its a good thing though, cause those frog ringers from a few years ago showed up and... if i ever have to hear those again, i may shoot myself.
Yep like this
do you like how it seems that a lot of the DM singles are non-ringtoned...
No longer available
Boy, as I go through my purchased songs looking for ring tone candidates, I'm getting a lot of "this song is no longer available in the itunes store." Must be that company that pulled out - universal? ugh.
Boy, as I go through my purchased songs looking for ring tone candidates, I'm getting a lot of "this song is no longer available in the itunes store." Must be that company that pulled out - universal? ugh.
It seems to display that error with any song that is not able to be a ring tone, I tried with songs that were purchased and songs that I ripped from CDs. I know these are not from Universal. Just seems like a default dialog box.
The trim feature never does what I want it to do! If I try to extend the length, it moves everything. PLEASE FIX!
you have the move the cursor to the edge of the highlighted selection to extend the length. clicking and dragging it anywhere between will simply move the selection to another time frame. it takes a little getting used to.
i'm trying to find a good ringtone, but it's hard for me to do when i already invested $15 in itoner. i just want one ringtone to try it out.
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lol it was under 5 minutes ago and I can't remember when it popped...
i made a quick ringtone out of "I'm shipping Up to Boston" by the Drop Kick Murphys (from "The Departed"), I believe it showed up right after I went through the process of acknowledging all the legal.
Since it took from the first song I thought a large percentage would be available, but scrolling through my purchased playlist, I would say under a third is available.
Also it's worth noting that only parts of some albums are available... ie all of the "The Best of Clapton..." sans "tears in heaven"... All of James Blunt's "Back to Bedlam" sans "you're beautiful"...
And others are the complete opposite... none of Gnarls Barkley's "St. Elsewhere," with the exception of "Crazy"... none of "Future/Sex Lovesounds" with the exception of SexyBack...
Hope this is helpful.
uh... you are buying ringtones?
You guys know you can put your own free ringtones on iTunes right?
You guys know you can put your own free ringtones on iTunes right?
do the ringtones that i made through the old m4a to m4r thing show up under the ringtones section on the left?
I don't see it...is it on some sort of timer for Us time? I'm in sweden and i have iphone and ringtones imported to itunes...strange
it might only be for US itunes, are you logged into the Swedish store? That might be the problem.