Apple Removes Custom Ringtone Creation in iTunes 10

[ppc_michael]

Wait wait wait. What's all this m4r business? Can't you guys use MP3/WAV/FLAC formats for iPhone ringtones?

 

[Rodimus Prime]

Wait wait wait. What's all this m4r business? Can't you guys use MP3/WAV/FLAC formats for iPhone ringtones?

Nope. Apple iPhone is one of the few cells sold that can not use an mp3 as a ring tone. It is limited to only the speacial ringtone fills that it wants you to pay for.

It is the only smart phone that does that and most dumb phones even allow you to install custom mp3 ring tones. Only common restriction I see pop up every now and thing from other phones is it has a max fill size for ring tones but that is a nonissue and understandable. Apple limition is 100% apple greed.

 

[tgc]

Other stuff...

Not only did they play with the UI and stack the close/minimize buttons (is that allowed?), they also removed the ability to search when setting which movies to sync to your iphone/ipod.

I guess the 'Ping' is what makes it version 10?

 

[Dr McKay]

One word... licensing

The fact remains that the powers that be do not feel you own your content to use as you please. You bought that song, yes. You want to use it as a ringtone? We want extra $. Because they can.

I find this so stupid, every phone I've owned that has had .mp3 support, has let you use any song for a ringtone.

 

[cdcastillo]

Step 1: Choose the song in your library you want to turn in a ringtone, .... Drag back into iTunes, and BAM! Custom ringtone, made for free.

Can't get Garageband created ringtones to work in iPhone 4 either. But that was done on the older garageband that worked on 3gs.

Or...you can still make ring tones with Garage Band and export them to itunes.

So, if I get this right, You can still use the old "unofficial" method, either with garageband or with iTunes 10, to create custom ringtones, true? I would hate to lose this capability just to gain a feature I'm not going to use (ping) if I update iTunes from 9 to 10.

 

[BillyBobBongo]

Can't believe anyone would have used this service anyway...paying for something twice. Madness!

 

[huntercr]

? What's wrong with that? I'm 23 and it's no longer cool to have songs? I like to be able to identify who's calling when I have headphones in. My dad has ringtones, and he's 57!

It has never been cool to have custom ringtones. It's just extroversive strutting around.

Try this sometime... next time you get a Phone call, say out loud "SHE'LL BE COMING ROUND THE MOUNTAIN WHEN SHE COMES!" It produces the same effect as a ring tone.

 

[vrillusions]

Here's how I made my ringtones and always worked:

• edit the file in audacity
• export as wav
• import wav into itunes
• convert wav to aac in itunes
• drag m4a file to desktop
• rename to .m4r
• delete the current file from itunes
• import .m4r file

Yes, there's a lot of steps but it works, has always been free, and should still work (haven't tested this in v10 yet)

 

[weirdlilwoman]

Step 1: Choose the song in your library you want to turn in a ringtone, and select get info.

Step 2: Set the start time and stop time to match the section of the song you want to use as your ringtone.

Step 3: Convert selection to AAC.

Step 4. Drag the AAC version to your desktop.

Step 5: Get info, convert extension to .m4r

Step 6: Drag back into iTunes, and BAM! Custom ringtone, made for free.

This only works for material you did not purchase from iTunes. iTunes purchased material is encoded and thus cannot be changes to AAC.

 

[AegisMark]

This site works well also

http://www.free-ringtones.cc/make-ringtone/

you can upload mp3 files and it will convert them to mr4 for iphone ringtones

 

[niakwa]

Help

Ok so i can make the ringtones and get them in the ringtones folder in itunes no problem. On the iphone under sounds/ringtone there is no custom option what so ever. What can I do?