It'll still function after 30 days, you just need to wait 60 seconds before the sync happens. It's impatience-ware, no functionality is disabled, we just make you wait if you haven't bought it.
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iToner 1.0 Released
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It'll still function after 30 days, you just need to wait 60 seconds before the sync happens. It's impatience-ware, no functionality is disabled, we just make you wait if you haven't bought it.
Funny you should mention that. Just wait until you see WireTap Studio. I think it will blow you away, it does everything you mentioned above, and quite a bit more. We've even filed several patents on it.
Interesting... I just picked up Wiretap Pro today. Is this a new piece of software that'll be out soon?
I bought this tonight, and I love this. Even if Apple does update on the 5th, and allow ring tones on the iPhone, I like the idea of NOT having to use iTunes for every little thing. It's worth a measly $15 for this feature. It amazes me how some people who can obviously afford a $600 cell phone can complain about $15. You can spend more then this one CD, or a ticket, popcorn and drink at a movie theater.
Your right but if you dont feel like searching for the file thru all your music folders, you can just hold down the "ctrl" key and click on the song tittle on iTunes and select "Show in Finder" and drag the file from the window that pops up showing the your song file to iToner.
"Show in Finder"!! I never noticed that before. Awesome!
(Alternatively, after you edit your ringtones, change the artist info to something consistent, like "ringtones", for all of them. That way they'll all be in the same folder)
That's an unfortunate detail to miss in 1.0. Not that there isn't an easy workaround... it's just that the way everyone assumes it should work, doesn't. Don't make me think!
I use Amadeus Pro. It's a very nice audio editor for Mac but not free - $40.00.
iToner is great app. Thank you Ambrosia.
It's great to finally have custom ringtones on my iPhone. My main problem has been that the tiny iPhone speaker distorts when any bass is being played, making the song sound horrible. What I did to correct this is take the song into Garageband and filter out the bass and boost up some of the other levels. This allows you to make the ringtone play really loud (louder than any of the stock ringtones) and doesn't distort.
It would be cool if this program could automatically apply some filters that optimize the mp3 to be played through an iPhone speaker. It would also be cool to have a built in tool to crop the song. My guess is that this is exactly what Apple is going to offer when they introduce their ringtones, but they're gonna charge a lot for it.
It would be cool if this program could automatically apply some filters that optimize the mp3 to be played through an iPhone speaker. It would also be cool to have a built in tool to crop the song. My guess is that this is exactly what Apple is going to offer when they introduce their ringtones, but they're gonna charge a lot for it.
Yes, exactly so... It is one of the coolest things we've ever done, too.
I agree! I LOVE WireTap Pro
Just downloaded and tried iToner but didn't need the 29 day trial period. I purchased it right away!
Like Wire Tap Pro . . . . another GREAT product ! ! !
Thanks
For the time being, I just created a playlist to sync in with iToner, but this would be great... since I would rather manually drag them in
Also, the playlist does not stick every time you restart iToner. You have to manually re-pick the playlist every time
OS X Only.
I believe all of Ambrosia's software is OS X only.
Finally, a piece of software out there that is highly sot after, but is made only for OS X and NOT Windows.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
sorry im kind of new to this but do you need an aple computer to download iToner I have an acer with windows vista I can I get iToner?
Sorry. Outside of some Games, everything else that Ambrosia Software makes (including iToner) is Mac only.
P.S. I also tried to install a ringtone for a friend of mine on his iPhone, who has a PC, but not a Mac. Since his iPhone is NOT registered on my machine, it
gave me an error when trying to sync. Oh well, it was worth a try. Now you know (if you try to go down that route as we did). He was bummed.
He says he's getting a MacBook Pro anyways, so he says he can wait.
Good luck.
is there any other way I can get ringtones on my iPhone besides iToner I dont have an apple computer
Ringtone from CocoaDex is what I use, and it's completely free.
Does the same thing as iToner, with integrated iTunes searching.
http://www.cocoadex.com/Ringtones_1.1.dmg
Does the same thing as iToner, with integrated iTunes searching.
http://www.cocoadex.com/Ringtones_1.1.dmg
I know of some Mac ones (mostly hack software, but it makes you restore your iPhone every time you do a software update) but not as easy or as uninvasive as iToner. I believe that their might be some Windows-based hacking work-arounds out there, but not a simple non-hacking software like iToner (as far as I know). The beauty of iToner is that it is not a hack into your iPhone. Just a nice piece of software that does its job well, all without voiding your iPhone warranty.
Ringtones does let you add using playlists. Click the browse button, then click iTunes at the top of the list to expand your library, and drag your playlist to the transfer window. Your whole playlist will be added.
congrats on the software and simple approach. I think your solution will definitely going to be cheaper than the iTunes method we shall see...
Making it look easy is always the hard part.
I think many developers are afraid to invest the effort because they are worried Apple will steamroll them. This is a very real fear; it's likely that Apple will at some point soon (perhaps next week) announce ringtone support in iTunes.
We're betting that they will charge for it, because of their contracts with AT&T (they likely have a revenue sharing model for ringtone sales). However if we're wrong, and they make a great general-purpose ringtone program that works with any audio files (purchased or not), then we wasted our time.
Many developers don't want to risk it; and I can understand that. We have other cool ideas of what to do with the technology, though, so it's not the end of the world if Apple worst-cases us.
Something like this. I want to write new software for the iPhone (since we're mobile oriented), but I don't want to do so without an Apple sanctioned way. Partly because I have enough trouble keeping up with all the "supported" ways of writing software for Windows Mobile and BlackBerry that adding non-supported methods on the iphone would be too much in the end. And partly because it'd be a real bad thing to charge people money only to have an iPhone update close the way of running apps later on.
Your app is different and for that we'll be paying for it shortly. Even if Apple offers a ringtone feature, it probably won't be as nice as iToner.
Yeah we tried that program out, and couldn't get it to work reliably. Ringtones were often not transfered, or the program hung, etc. You also have to reset your phone before it will see the ringtones.
We also had it happen that when it did work, it messed up the ringtone list, and we had to use iToner to clear the ringtones out before the phone would work properly. Your mileage may vary.