i feel slightly silly, as i discovered this app only yesterday. it works great, and it doesn't mess with your iphone at all. no hacking, no this or that. just dragging and dropping. well worth the $15!
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iToner 1.0 Released
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Ah, right, sorry that's what I meant -- that was the same situation with iToner prior to the 1.0.1 update. I'm sure they'll get it fixed.
A good source for ringtone sounds:
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/
You need to register/log in to download them, but they are pretty nice, and under the Creative Commons license. Here's a nice basic cellphone ring:
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/data/30/sounds/30054__Regenpak__cellfone_ring.wav
You need to convert this into an mp3 or m4a file before you can use it on your iPhone, but iTunes can do that for you.
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/
You need to register/log in to download them, but they are pretty nice, and under the Creative Commons license. Here's a nice basic cellphone ring:
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/data/30/sounds/30054__Regenpak__cellfone_ring.wav
You need to convert this into an mp3 or m4a file before you can use it on your iPhone, but iTunes can do that for you.
Weird. Now that ringtone purchases are enabled in Tunes, I get an error message every time after syncing with iToner.
"Error talking to phone. May need to resync or reset phone. 8"
iToner still works fine, and the ringtones are transferred OK so it's not a big deal. Just ... weird.
"Error talking to phone. May need to resync or reset phone. 8"
iToner still works fine, and the ringtones are transferred OK so it's not a big deal. Just ... weird.
I had the same problem
I had to reset my iPhone and it went away, it was a pain.
Out...
I had to reset my iPhone and it went away, it was a pain.
Out...
I'm surprised you'd say that -- we've been using iToner 1.0.1 with iTunes 7.4.2 and everything seems to work just fine. What problems have you encountered?
iToner 1.0.1 is working perfectly with iTunes 7.4.2 on my iPhone as well. I updated to iTunes 7.4.2 & resynced my iPhone several times to check for any changes and my "iToner" ringtones were totally unaffected.
So just to give you an idea of what we're thinking regarding iToner, here it goes. The first few weeks of iToner's existence were all about survival. We wanted to ensure that iToner continued to work with iTunes updates, and burned the midnight oil to ensure that happened.
I think a good indication of how we did is that when Apple updated iTunes from 7.4.1 to 7.4.2, they broke all of the other non-Jailbreak techniques for putting ringtones on your iPhone, but iToner continued to work unmodified.
With a sigh of relief, we then cleaned up a few things, adding a bit more spiff to the interface, and released iToner 1.0.2 just recently.
So what does the future hold for iToner? Now that the update scrambling is seemingly over, we're thinking about the following features:
-- Adding bluetooth support, so that iToner will work with any cell phone that has bluetooth. Instead of being limited to uploading ringtones to iPhones, it'd then work with just about any phone.
-- Editing/cropping ringtones. It's something we absolutely want to be able to do. Drag a song over, and iToner lets you pick what part of it to use as a ringtone. This opens up a can of worms that I won't get into here, but suffice it to say that because of the transcoding that's required, it'll be a bit of work to do it right. And we do always try to do things right
-- Going along with the above, we'd also like to be able to transcode the ringtones into bitrates more suitable for iPhone ringtones, convert them to mono, and optionally boost the dynamic range of the ringtones so that they will sound more crisp and clear on the iPhone's build in speaker.
-- Bundling ringtones! We'd like to be able to ship the product with a bunch of cool ringtones people can choose from. This means licensing a quality sound library, something we've been looking into.
More than anything else, we fully intend to keep the elegant simplicity of the product, rather than bloat it with esoteric features. Drag, Drop, Sync... if we make it harder than that to use, we've failed in my opinion.
There's no timetable on any of these improvements, but I just wanted to let folks here know what we're considering for the product.
I think a good indication of how we did is that when Apple updated iTunes from 7.4.1 to 7.4.2, they broke all of the other non-Jailbreak techniques for putting ringtones on your iPhone, but iToner continued to work unmodified.
With a sigh of relief, we then cleaned up a few things, adding a bit more spiff to the interface, and released iToner 1.0.2 just recently.
So what does the future hold for iToner? Now that the update scrambling is seemingly over, we're thinking about the following features:
-- Adding bluetooth support, so that iToner will work with any cell phone that has bluetooth. Instead of being limited to uploading ringtones to iPhones, it'd then work with just about any phone.
-- Editing/cropping ringtones. It's something we absolutely want to be able to do. Drag a song over, and iToner lets you pick what part of it to use as a ringtone. This opens up a can of worms that I won't get into here, but suffice it to say that because of the transcoding that's required, it'll be a bit of work to do it right. And we do always try to do things right
-- Going along with the above, we'd also like to be able to transcode the ringtones into bitrates more suitable for iPhone ringtones, convert them to mono, and optionally boost the dynamic range of the ringtones so that they will sound more crisp and clear on the iPhone's build in speaker.
-- Bundling ringtones! We'd like to be able to ship the product with a bunch of cool ringtones people can choose from. This means licensing a quality sound library, something we've been looking into.
More than anything else, we fully intend to keep the elegant simplicity of the product, rather than bloat it with esoteric features. Drag, Drop, Sync... if we make it harder than that to use, we've failed in my opinion.
There's no timetable on any of these improvements, but I just wanted to let folks here know what we're considering for the product.
That all sounds amazing dude. Thanks for all your hard work it is appreciated.
Thanks... just be patient, some of these changes are not trivial in terms of the underlying way that iToner works. Our main goal for 1.0 was getting a stable, easy to use, reliable program out the door to enable people to use their own ringtones.
Heck, part of the motivation was selfish, I wanted a Borat ringtone for my iPhone.
But I'm just letting you know that it may be a bit before we have some of these more major features done, so don't expect the kind of turn-around that we've been able to accomplish with the bug fix updates to the product.
iToner has been a lot of fun to work on... quite a ride with all of the Apple updates, etc. You folks have been great, and have kept us motivated!
moki this is the first time that I have heard of the Ambrosia company. sorry . But I will check into it when I get home from work. From what I have read so far your company comes with alot of good reveiws. I more than likely will be getting your ringtone software for my iphone when I get it today.
. But I will check into it when I get home from work. From what I have read so far your company comes with alot of good reveiws. I more than likely will be getting your ringtone software for my iphone when I get it today. 
GarageBand allows you to sync ringtones to your iPhone? Huh, I must have missed that update.
iToner is a great product. I'm currently still on the trial and the only thing I wish it had was the built in editing functions.
What is the most popular program that everyone is using to edit? Is everyone just using GarageBand?
Yes, it allows you to just selected the song from your iLife Library into the program, Then selected to 40sec piece that you want. Then simply click share > Send ringtone to iTunes.
And if you want to do any editing it is all there for you.
Have Fun