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- colincornaby, on 12/14/2007, -5/+170It's a Festivus miracle!
- tbenathan, on 12/14/2007, -3/+98Everyone's happy about making free ringtones, but who's going to take care of the poor studios?
Good riddance, absurd fees. - RotaJota, on 12/14/2007, -3/+74Well it's about time.
- abbathdoom, on 12/14/2007, -16/+68I've never understood why people are so critical of Apple over not having free Ringtones. Its the greedy record labels who are constantly threatening to pull out of iTunes that are insisting that if iTunes supports ringtones then it sure as hell better be ones that pay them a percentage. Ringtones are big business for labels. If Apple didnt have iTunes and agreements with all the labels do you think they would be bothering to take a tiny cut of ring tone sales for the sake of making their hardware less appealing? I dont think so!
- victorycig, on 12/14/2007, -6/+31Direct link to help page on Apple's site.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307 ... - Xerxus, on 12/14/2007, -14/+38You are praising Apple for correcting something that shouldn't have been an issue to begin with?
- jpetrides, on 12/14/2007, -5/+27Maybe, but this doesn't change the fact that they should have been free in the first place. Adding a song editor to itunes and then charging to make the new file and transfer it to your iphone is ridiculous. Charging money for ringtones is one of the biggest scams out there. I used motorola phone tools 4 years ago to do the same thing for free.
- eastreader, on 12/14/2007, -2/+23I don't have an iPhone, but I'm happy for the Apple fans.
- colincornaby, on 12/14/2007, -11/+311. Buy expensive iPhone.
2. Rename your AAC tracks with an m4r extension and load them as ringtones on your iPhone.
3. Laugh at the Windows fanboy who has no idea what he's talking about.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=35149 ... - streak, on 12/14/2007, -2/+19Thanks to everyone, for having held off on buying ringtones!
- huggybarrel, on 12/14/2007, -13/+29sucks for the Windows users
- TheReport, on 12/14/2007, -0/+15wow either, I've been at digg for to long and see this statement as a rather confusing ploy to convey sarcasm or you genuinely are happy for Apple fans. What a strange and foreign concept
- potterboy, on 12/14/2007, -1/+16What he meant is that Windows iPhone users can't do this.
- bigsteve, on 12/14/2007, -2/+16Be nice.
_-=-_/.1$13%tt3rIDSPISPOPD--13ig$teve - Mizzike, on 12/14/2007, -3/+16damn commenting system... digg me down.
- Mizzike, on 12/14/2007, -1/+13*raises hand*
- MacGeekGuy, on 12/14/2007, -4/+16Why's this guy being dugg down? That's not an anti-windows comment, it's a statement of fact. Garageband is not available for Windows, therefore they are left out in the cold for making ringtones this way. It's a valid and sympathetic statement.
- HypocriteDigg, on 12/14/2007, -18/+30Bitch, whine, and then bitch some more.
What would make your fanboy ass happy? Maybe getting an education so you can afford these things? - monospaced, on 12/14/2007, -1/+13Apparently 50% of iPhone users, actually.
- inactive, on 12/14/2007, -4/+15Since when are iPhones for Mac users only now? You seem to refer to Macs lying around as if they're rubber bands or dirty socks. Dumbest thing I've read today...
- UoMDeacon, on 12/14/2007, -1/+12Ummm...yeah, that'd be me.
- nightstrm, on 12/14/2007, -12/+21Apple relented? Maybe they were just working on the functionality and testing before releasing it...
- Smoozle, on 12/14/2007, -0/+9Other phones don't use iTunes-ish software to interface with your computer. Other phones are not made by companies that also have a music distribution business, on which the continued success of a cash-cow line of mp3 players depends.
- shealer, on 12/14/2007, -0/+7Which of course is useless with an iPhone, which is the point of this article.
- inactive, on 12/14/2007, -10/+17Ok? Everyone else has had this ability for a few years.
- joker10687, on 12/14/2007, -2/+8Hopefully other companies will follow suit and make it easy to put your own custom ringtones... I've always wanted to do it but can't on my $20 phone 8[
- phoomp, on 12/14/2007, -2/+8Testing the functionality of adding ringtones to an existing set of ringtones? Is the iPhone OS so unstable that a few extra .mp4s might crash it?
- jerrylin, on 12/14/2007, -1/+7http://www.macrumors.com/iphone/2007/09/07/free-cu ...
You can still add free Ringtones to an iPhone using Windows. Using the m4r rename trick (convert to AAC first) - digthedug, on 12/14/2007, -0/+5Err, the converting to AAC and then renaming to M4R works in the newest version of iTunes... No need for GarageBand.
- desqjockey, on 12/14/2007, -0/+5But this is a $400B market in ten years! And here I was focusing on putting together a ring-tone band rather than making real music. Well, there will always be Motorola. They just dont give a crap what their users want.
- phoomp, on 12/14/2007, -0/+5The poor studios? Think of the artists!
oh .. wait - ECas123, on 12/15/2007, -0/+5Ah Festivus. A festivis for the rest of us.
- bigsteve, on 12/14/2007, -0/+4Precisely. I never understood the uprising of morons who think Apple is intentionally removing features they obviously their customers want.
- arjung, on 12/14/2007, -0/+4verizon makes me
1) record a voice recording
2) add a mp3 file to my sd card
3) rename the mp3 to the weird name of the voice recording
4) never remove my sd card
to get free ringtones on my razr. - inactive, on 12/14/2007, -2/+6Welcome, newcomers. The tradition of Festivus begins with the airing of grievances. I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you're gonna hear about it!
- CheeseheadDave, on 12/14/2007, -4/+8Garageband can also create ringtones for non-iPhones...
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1036 - BeeWolf, on 12/14/2007, -0/+4Excellent point. Apple isn't only trying to stay on the good side of AT&T, but they have the music conglomerates to keep placated as well. This whole "blame Apple for lack of custom ringtones" thing strikes me the same as those who liked --still like!-- to cast Apple as the largest purveyor of DRM'd music on the planet. While true, it completely misses the point: Apple's influence and direction in the music download industry is positive and not negative, and DRM-hatas would do well to recognize that fact. Ultimately, it probably will turn out that Apple's influence in the mobile phone market--including ringtones--was one of positive change. Or at least neutrality.
- robdazomba, on 12/14/2007, -1/+5Relents? More like "finally found time." It's clear to anyone even vaguely paying attention that Apple has stretched their resources pretty thin over the last year and had to abandon various features on the iPhone that people were expecting. Still, it's fun to watch people get worked up over their own pet conspiracy theories about Apple and then watch the inevitable told-ya-so moment come.
Sheesh, people. Get out more often. - johnpaul191, on 12/14/2007, -0/+3Verizon still has your back. at $1.99 per polyphonic midi rightone, and they eventually expire, you may do better than selling singles through iTMS. you also don't need a stupid band to split the profits with.
- desqjockey, on 12/14/2007, -1/+4Maybe thats because they are hard to upgrade. My PC still has components from the mid-90s. It evolves.
- funnyboy88, on 12/14/2007, -4/+7This is wonderful news. I've already used Garageband to make my current ringtones using the rename to .m4r trick, so it's nice to know the ringtones I've created won't be lost in a future software update!
- inactive, on 12/14/2007, -4/+7Good for Apple! FINALLY a company knows how to treats its customers! Not making them wait 7 months to do this. Only 6!
- huggybarrel, on 12/14/2007, -4/+7ooook. It sucks for the Windows+iPhone users who don't/can't have/use Garageband.
- fxspec06, on 12/14/2007, -1/+4that kinda looks like a giant penis.
is that why you're called "big steve" ? - Smoozle, on 12/14/2007, -0/+3Yeah, only Motorola can say "Screw you!" to Universal with little to no consequences. Apple can't.
- colincornaby, on 12/14/2007, -0/+3To clarify the above comment, the file has to be in the AAC format first. You can't just take an MP3 and rename it to M4R. If you have Garageband, all you have to do is drag the MP3 in and then say save as ringtone though.
- kaytrio, on 12/14/2007, -1/+4You're a good person
- Zero2aHero, on 12/15/2007, -0/+3In garageband you can import a whole song and then select the 40 second "cycle" you want to use as a ringtone and export it right from there, way easier than renaming extensions,etc...
- Klarth, on 12/14/2007, -4/+7Thanks for your opinion, but it's a) irrelevant and b) nothing we haven't already thought about.
="'./;-*=Klarth - deadbaby, on 12/14/2007, -0/+2You may not buy it, but it's true. Apple has a history of holding off on features until they can implement them properly. They very rarely will do something that requires a user to convert, edit, rename, and manually move a file to make a feature usable.
As for giving into AT&T's demands, remember AT&T is a partner. Apple needed a carrier to springboard their product. Like any other partnership they have to make some concessions. If they had partnered with Verizon or T-Mobile they'd still have to meet the carrier half way on some issues. That's just how business works. -
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