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New Garageband 4.1.1 Feature Allows Ringtones to Be Created

Ringtones

Just tried it, as has been said, works great, But

This seems to be a low level ringtone file, (128 Kbps), the transcoding seems to change the EQ of the file.

I know since I do pro recording, acoustic guitar, and the guitar tracks I selected now have a very weird and irritating mid range EQ boost, enough for me to know the tone of the guitar has changed.

What may be going on, any ideas. And, EQ / Sound Enhancer is turned off in iTunes. But definitely a difference in original and this ringtone.

I'll bet this does not happen using iToner.

later,
mgm
 
I take it this is only with the most recent version of GB? I never went to iLife 08. Can you share ringtones?
 
Finally I got it to work

For the life in me I could not get the ringer to work since yesterday. I would create it in the updated GarageBand, export it to iTunes and sync it to my iPhone. It would show up in my iPhone, I would choose the song track as the ringer. Call myself from the land line and..... the default Marimba would ring.

Until finally I went into my own number within contacts and sure enough it was set for Marimba and not the default ringer. This must have happened during the iToner trial days. :eek:

But now problem fixed and am enjoying custom ringtones!:p
 
DotComCTO said:
P.S. My two new ringtones are the theme from Super Mario Bros (I didn't like any of the ones I've heard out there), and the background music from Super Mario World (Yoshi). Both of my ringtones rock...in a super dorky way...and I've set the looping region so that it loops seamlessly.
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Hey, me too! But I've also got the Star Wars Imperial March on there...
 
CBJammin103 said:
What about for those of us that aren't on the very latest iLife? Not getting any ringtone support...?
:(
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Welcome to Apple, Inc. They are a business. One of their many goals each day is to make a profit, which in turn leads to paying employees a salary in which to make a living. Allowing one to use old software and giving free updates doesn't turn a profit. Ok seriously, go out and spend $69.99 on Amazon for iLife '08. It's the biggest bargain of the century. And put down that $2 cup of Starbucks before you say you can't afford it. :D
 
r6girl said:
i'm pleasantly surprised by this! i'd thought the reason that apple wasn't endorsing this before was because they didn't want to get entangled in copyright issues with the music industry. i guess requiring the use of garageband somehow gets around this, or at least distances apple from risk enough for them to be okay with it...
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GarageBand doesn't import MP3 files. Most people don't know how to get around that, which means that people can't use "their illegal music".

Also, it doesn't import iTunes protected AAC files, which means that if it's from the iTMS you have to pay still.

So... the average consumer can't make ringtones out of others' songs.
 
This is nice and all, but why can't I do that in iTunes?

This should be a blacklist thing, instead of a whitelist one. If a copyright holder wishes for the user to not use a song as a ringtone, they should sell the song with DRM and a flag that prevents ringtone creation.

And then I can note that fact in their online store and not buy that song.

The default should be to allow ringtones to be generated for a song.
 
mikes63737 said:
GarageBand doesn't import MP3 files. Most people don't know how to get around that, which means that people can't use "their illegal music".
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You sure about that? I'm pretty sure I just dragged and dropped the MP3 file of my desired ringtone into a GB track. Then I edited, set up the loop and created a ringtone.

I'm pretty sure I initially created an MP3 file and used that as my source.

:confused:

--DotComCTO
 
DotComCTO said:
You sure about that? I'm pretty sure I just dragged and dropped the MP3 file of my desired ringtone into a GB track. Then I edited, set up the loop and created a ringtone.

I'm pretty sure I initially created an MP3 file and used that as my source.

:confused:

--DotComCTO
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Just did the same thing. I have always drag and dropped mp3s into GB.
 
mikes63737 said:
GarageBand doesn't import MP3 files. Most people don't know how to get around that, which means that people can't use "their illegal music".

Also, it doesn't import iTunes protected AAC files, which means that if it's from the iTMS you have to pay still.
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Well, a lot of music on the iTunes store now has no DRM so I'm assuming those would work just fin.
 
Markleshark said:
You can't please all of the people all of the time. You'll want blood next I suppose.
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Good lord. I don't think I'm asking for much, the latest iLife hasn't been out for very long yet and this is a relatively small change to the software that could most easily be implemented into older versions. Sheesh.

Pandaboots said:
Welcome to Apple, Inc. They are a business. One of their many goals each day is to make a profit, which in turn leads to paying employees a salary in which to make a living. Allowing one to use old software and giving free updates doesn't turn a profit. Ok seriously, go out and spend $69.99 on Amazon for iLife '08. It's the biggest bargain of the century. And put down that $2 cup of Starbucks before you say you can't afford it.
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Well, I was holding off on the iLife update... it's not that I absolutely can't afford it - not that I drink Starbucks anyway :p - but it's that I couldn't justify the $70 for what seems to be a marginal update at best, for me. I don't have a video camera so I wouldn't use the new iMovie and I don't see a $70 change in iPhoto. At least for a most casual photographer. And I definitely won't use iWeb, not much appeal in cookie-cutter website creation for me.

So it's not that I don't like iLife, it's that I didn't really need the upgrade and could have spent that money better. Like on Leopard...

Ah well, guess I'll have to give it a second thought at some point.
 
CBJammin103 said:
What about for those of us that aren't on the very latest iLife? Not getting any ringtone support...?
:(
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(Or...gasp... Windows users!!)

What another nice way to get a iPhone person who doesn't have a Mac to try one :)
 
BWhaler said:
I just don't get Apple nowadays.

Either this was poorly planned releasing this feature after tons of bad will was built-up in the base and the youger folks.

Or, this was their plan all along, and Apple care more about the media companies than us.

I have a buddy who is a senior guy at MSFT, and years ago he said that MSFT could care less about me and the "guys who walk into Best Buy." What they cared about were the networks and content providers.

Apple took a different approach, and the rest is history. I just hope Apple doesn't forget what got them to where they are today.

Either way, this feature addition is a good thing.
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i think this will justify anouther iphone update and knock all unlocked xmas phones out Apple are being very very clever with it all

they are there to make money the difference being that we don't mind them making it

they have a plan for everything !!!!!!
 
BWhaler said:
I just don't get Apple nowadays.

Either this was poorly planned releasing this feature after tons of bad will was built-up in the base and the youger folks.

Or, this was their plan all along, and Apple care more about the media companies than us. ...

Either way, this feature addition is a good thing.
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I don't know how often this point is mentioned, but during Steve's iPhone / iTunes demo at MWSF 2007, there was a "Ringtones" tab in iTunes--not demoed. This tab was missing at iPhone launch 6 months later. Something changed (or wasn't resolved) close enough to MWSF that the UI showed an un-demoable feature; it didn't re-appear until 7.4 in September.

Lots of people here have used ringtones as proof of Apple greed (and now it might turn into "w00t, we forced Apple to make it right!"), but if labels and Apple disagreed about ringtones pricing, what sane path could Apple take? I'm with calpundit on this one

calpundit said:
If you read the Apple info doc, it says this at the top (emphasis added):

"With GarageBand 4.1.1 you can export your original song, your original audio recordings, or use Apple Loops and iLife jingles to create a custom ringtone for your iPhone." ...

I think the wording of the preamble is Apple's answer to the music industry's predictable howls about copyright infringement.
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This wasn't impossible to accomplish prior to this update, but there were a myriad of steps involved, including importing the song to GarageTune, clipping the section you wanted, exporting to iTunes, converting to AAC, opening it in the finder, renaming it to m4r and then finally importing it again to iTunes.
I've successfully accomplished this to create a custom ringtone following these steps.

This update, however, adds big thumbs up to make this easier. I have yet to try it, but I'm sure it will work fine.
Cool! :)
 
BWhaler said:
I just don't get Apple nowadays.

Either this was poorly planned releasing this feature after tons of bad will was built-up in the base and the youger folks.

Or, this was their plan all along, and Apple care more about the media companies than us.

I have a buddy who is a senior guy at MSFT, and years ago he said that MSFT could care less about me and the "guys who walk into Best Buy." What they cared about were the networks and content providers.

Apple took a different approach, and the rest is history. I just hope Apple doesn't forget what got them to where they are today.

Either way, this feature addition is a good thing.
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It's funny. I think they really had "timing" at the heart of what they were doing. They wanted to release their ringtone solution (late), and then they wanted to release their Garageband solution (later). All it took was one over-worked programming team to overlook the natural progression of management strategies aadpting to an organic and ambitious development schedule... thereby leaving something in... and one person to go... "Oh, hey... what's this piece of string hanging out?", and suddenly... world of hurt. Now? Launches have been made, features debuted. They can only race third party solutions when they block the feature to begin with. If the loose string hadn't been found, few people would have made such a fuss. That's my conclusion.

~ CB
 
Originally Posted by calpundit
If you read the Apple info doc, it says this at the top (emphasis added):

"With GarageBand 4.1.1 you can export your original song, your original audio recordings, or use Apple Loops and iLife jingles to create a custom ringtone for your iPhone." ...

I think the wording of the preamble is Apple's answer to the music industry's predictable howls about copyright infringeme

i think that it all has to do with defered responsabilty or what ever its called.

Apple give you the software to legally rip music you have brought but if you rip music that your friend brought technacly aren't you stealing music ?????

so you can put a origanl creation on no problems but if you you do something your not ment to it's not their fault
 
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