Yeah, I got that this morning! What is up with that? I only have 4 computers authorized. You can have up to 5. Any help???
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Apple Adds Ringtone Support to iTunes
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Yeah, I got that this morning! What is up with that? I only have 4 computers authorized. You can have up to 5. Any help???
Sorry if came across as being rude. After reading my first reply directed towards you, I thought it could have been construed as a personal attack. I just couldn't imagine a ringtone that was two minutes long being of any use in the way of a caller's ringtone. Just wanted to clear that up.
Rip off
Wow. What a rip off. The music industry wants you to pay through the nose over and over for their garbage. It isn't enough that we've bought the song on vinyl, cassette, CD, iTunes - now they want us to pay another dollar for the privilege of a few seconds on our phones as ring tones. Next they'll want us to pay every time we listen, every time we hum, every time we think of something they copyrighted. They're abusing the law and Fair Use.
Wow. What a rip off. The music industry wants you to pay through the nose over and over for their garbage. It isn't enough that we've bought the song on vinyl, cassette, CD, iTunes - now they want us to pay another dollar for the privilege of a few seconds on our phones as ring tones. Next they'll want us to pay every time we listen, every time we hum, every time we think of something they copyrighted. They're abusing the law and Fair Use.
Fixed. In iTunes, click on "Store" and then "Authorize Computer"...for some reason, I had to authorize my computer again. Once done, it will sync just fine.
sendsong app?
i haven't seen much chatter about this, but this seems to me to be the easiest (as well as free) way to add ringtones...
if you use apptapp. you can download and install an app called sendsong. (you don't even need a computer, it's great)
what sendsong lets you do is email any song that's on your phone. but they also have a "email to ringtone" feature. if you do that it pops up in ringtones.
super quick on the go ringtones.
i haven't seen much chatter about this, but this seems to me to be the easiest (as well as free) way to add ringtones...
if you use apptapp. you can download and install an app called sendsong. (you don't even need a computer, it's great)
what sendsong lets you do is email any song that's on your phone. but they also have a "email to ringtone" feature. if you do that it pops up in ringtones.
super quick on the go ringtones.
Can anyone confirm this?
Let's say I own a cd for a song. I put it on my iPod. The same song is available on the iTunes store and is ringtone capable. Do I have to buy the song from iTunes in order to convert it to a ringtone?
Make sure you've really changed the extension, use the Get Info box in the Finder, rather than just clicking on the filename and changing it. Otherwise the file will be renamed SongTitle.m4r.m4a and still be an m4a, thereby adding it to your Music library. For me, when I correctly change the file to m4r it changes to a generic icon rather than a recognized iTunes icon.
After this step, move the new m4r file into the /iTunes/iTunes Music/Ringtones directory, then...
8. Change extension back to m4a in the Finder, again being sure you've really changed it using the Get Info box for the file
This worked for me, and I successfully created and synced a new ringtone this morning from one of my own AAC files originally ripped from a CD (already posted the procedure a few pages back on this thread).
The "tricky" points are being sure you've really changed the extension from m4a to m4r, then moving the file to the appropriate place in the iTunes hierarchy before dragging it to iTunes, then changing the extension back to m4a again after it shows up in your Ringtone list.
Incidentally several of my added ringtones are the unaltered 30-second previews from the iTunes store, downloaded prior to 7.4 when you could find their URLs in an exported song list. They showed up as expected in my Ringtones library once this feature was turned on this morning, and continue to function and sync as before.
From what it seems like, only songs purchased through iTunes Music Store are eligible as ringtones. Also, the purchased songs must be "eligible" in terms of turning the purchased track into a ringtone warranted by iTunes Music Store. I've gone through some music that I have that was not purchased through iTunes Music Store and that was a no go. Tracks purchased through the store still doesn't mean they can be ringtones. This is in disregards to the "backdoor" approach to creating ringtones from your own personal library of music.
You are violating copyright laws with your "hacks." Musicians work atarin, and they only authorize the use of their music as a ringtone to people who pay for it.
I just hope they add it for all of their music...stupid record labels...
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yea they should just give their product away, like grocery stores and best buy and the apple store...oh wait
that's just not how it works bud.
Ringtones
Had a pop-up asking if I wanted I-Tunes to serach for songs in my library that were compatible. It did it and the bells popped up in a new column. Funy thing is I went into I-Tunes store to confirm and the songs my I-Tunes shows are compatible do not show up in the store as compatible. That being said, coverted a Taproot song this morning and it works just fine.
Had a pop-up asking if I wanted I-Tunes to serach for songs in my library that were compatible. It did it and the bells popped up in a new column. Funy thing is I went into I-Tunes store to confirm and the songs my I-Tunes shows are compatible do not show up in the store as compatible. That being said, coverted a Taproot song this morning and it works just fine.
if you command+j your library you can add the ringtone column and see what you have that can be made in to ringtones.
Maybe, but what about those of us that want to use a sound or a piece of music that we created ourselves as a ringtone? Without these "hacks" this is impossible to do.
Are you insane! That's like someone saying that I should pay a secondary fee to listen to music stored on my iPod in my car.
If someone legally bought music and can already play that music on said device (let's say an iPhone), then why would they have to pay a second time to hear a 30 second snippet of said song?
I understand and accept that there is an entire industry built around ring tones, but downloading and paying for a ring tone from Verizon is different than buying music once and then being forced to pay for it a second time. What the difference you might ask, well in this case Verizon is performing a service, providing the edited ring tone. But with iTune I'm buying the song first, then editing it and then paying a second time.
People wonder the music industry is dying, well here is one more reason.
No, they're not. I suggest you do some reading to find out what 'Fair Use' actually means in the context of copyright.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
it is a gray area, sure. You cannot use more than 30 seconds of the work as a ringtone, or you are violating copyright law, that much is sure.
You cannot broadcast or "air" a copyrighted song in a public environment without violating fair use. This is why restaurants and bars and stores pay music publishers each time they play songs over their PA systems.
having your cell phone broadcast "Baby One More Time" to a train full of people is quite different from playing it back in the privacy of your car.
You cannot broadcast or "air" a copyrighted song in a public environment without violating fair use. This is why restaurants and bars and stores pay music publishers each time they play songs over their PA systems.
having your cell phone broadcast "Baby One More Time" to a train full of people is quite different from playing it back in the privacy of your car.
there are many reasons. People not paying for music is probably the biggest or the second biggest. The other top reason is bad music in the mainstream.