Ringtones made in Garageband distort on iPhone

[jon08]

Sorry to bring up this old thread, but even in the latest version of GarageBand, the ringtones you export to iTunes STILL sound distorted. Will they sound better when on iPhone? I somehow doubt it.

What is there to do?

 

[Interstella5555]

Sorry to bring up this old thread, but even in the latest version of GarageBand, the ringtones you export to iTunes STILL sound distorted. Will they sound better when on iPhone? I somehow doubt it.

What is there to do?

I make mine in iTunes and never had a problem. Someone mentioned earlier in the thread about changing some of the settings, have you tried this?

 

[jon08]

I make mine in iTunes and never had a problem. Someone mentioned earlier in the thread about changing some of the settings, have you tried this?

Yeah, I did change it in Garageband, though it doesn't seem to make much difference. I'll transfer the ringtones to my iPhone and see if perhaps it sounds fine there, and then I'll report back.

Btw, how do you make yours in iTunes? I can't find the Export to AAC format or what it called in iTunes.

EDIT: ok so I transferred the ringtones, and the ones made in Garageband actually sound better! They sound distorted in iTunes, but actually sound better on the iPhone, and those that sound better in iTunes sound worse on the iPhone! So I'm good, hehe.

 

[Interstella5555]

Yeah, I did change it in Garageband, though it doesn't seem to make much difference. I'll transfer the ringtones to my iPhone and see if perhaps it sounds fine there, and then I'll report back.

Btw, how do you make yours in iTunes? I can't find the Export to AAC format or what it called in iTunes.

EDIT: ok so I transferred the ringtones, and the ones made in Garageband actually sound better! They sound distorted in iTunes, but actually sound better on the iPhone, and those that sound better in iTunes sound worse on the iPhone! So I'm good, hehe.

Glad you worked it out, here's the iTunes method if you want to give it a try:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2160460_custom-iphone-ringtones-free.html

 

[jon08]

Glad you worked it out, here's the iTunes method if you want to give it a try:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2160460_custom-iphone-ringtones-free.html

Hm, I've been to this website before, but I don't seem to find the "Convert Selection to AAC." option when I right-click on the song (after having selected the portion of the song I wish to have)......

 

[jayducharme]

Rogue Amoeba has a free utility that's dirt-simple to use and produces great-sounding ringtones:

http://rogueamoeba.com/freebies/

There's also this one that has a few more options:

http://www.iphoneringtonecreator.com/

 

[QuarterSwede]

Yeah, it doesn't EQ them. The iPhone's speaker can't produce audio below say 110hz. So any sounds that it tries to produce below that just sound like utter garbage. Make your ringtones in Audacity. EQ to cutoff anything below 100hz or so, you can normalize @ like -3.0 db depending on the song to increase the audio and you get great results.

For instance, try making a ringtone of Daft Punk - Robot Rock in Garageband and compare it to this one that I made i
Audacity:
http://idisk.mac.com/tedroddy/Public/Daft Punk - Robot Rock.m4r

There is no comparison, Audacity + EQ + Normalize is the only way to go. Yeah, it's more steps, but the result is SO. MUCH. BETTER.

Agreed. Audacity is pretty much flawless when it comes to stereo editing. I highly recommend it.

 

[jon08]

Rogue Amoeba has a free utility that's dirt-simple to use and produces great-sounding ringtones:

http://rogueamoeba.com/freebies/

There's also this one that has a few more options:

http://www.iphoneringtonecreator.com/

How do I make an AAC file though?

 

[QuarterSwede]

How do I make an AAC file though?

It looks like both of those will export to an m4r which is just an AAC file that iTunes and the iPhone sees as a ringtone.

 

[jon08]

It looks like both of those will export to an m4r which is just an AAC file that iTunes and the iPhone sees as a ringtone.

Yeah, but they require an AAC file to work with, while all my music in iTunes is in mp3 format. WHat's the easiest way to make an AAC file then?

 

[jon08]

Ok I've found in iTunes the option to make an AAC file... the reason it didn't appear before was because I had the Import setting set as MP3 instead of AAC.

Now I'll need to check the sound quality on my iPhone and then I'll report back.

 

[jayducharme]

It looks like both of those will export to an m4r which is just an AAC file that iTunes and the iPhone sees as a ringtone.

Correct. If you simply change the .aac extension on a sound file to .m4r, then import it into iTunes, you'll have a ringtone file. I believe that's really all that the Rogue Amoeba program does.

So basically, if you have iTunes set to import all your sound files as AAC, any of those files then can be easily converted into a ringtone.