11 posts tagged “ringtones”
Create Ringtones for free with just iTunes
By Jeff Smykil | Published: August 07, 2008 - 03:58PM CT
There are a few different ways to create ringtones for your brand new,
shiny iPhone. While some bystanders might find the playing of your
favorite song annoying, it can quickly inform you to exactly who is
calling without taking the phone out of your pocket, purse, or man-bag.
For instance whenever Clint Ecker hears the song Gin and Juice, he knows that that it's Ars Technica's Managing Editor Eric Bangeman on the other end, and he can ignore the call accordingly.
The Apple Blog offers a way of creating ringtones sans Garage Band or any other third-party software, and all it requires is an up-to-date copy of iTunes and a little time. It uses the start-stop time feature in the audio file's Get Info area, and requires you to cut the track down to the specific 30 seconds you desire. After that, you just convert the clip to AAC, drop it on your desktop, delete the file from iTunes, change the extension to .m4a or m4r, and then drop it back into iTunes. It's not the easiest process, but at least it is free.
Of course, there are more methods of doing this for free in addition to third-party applications that automate the process for a price. Either way, it's cheaper than paying Apple almost $2 a pop.
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/08/07/create-ringtones-for-free-with-just-itunes
iPhone Users Get GarageBand Ringtones
iPhone
users with crappy bands will rejoice today, as the recently released
GarageBand 4.1.1 update adds easy ringtone exporting. Users have full
access to Apple Loops and iLife jingles—as well as their own
recordings—to export tracks. Here's the full procedure:
1. Start a crappy band.
2. Meet twice a week to argue whether you are going for a sound reminiscent of the Beatles pre or post Sgt. Pepper.
3. Lose your lead singer who is starting a solo career.
4. Say "fuck vocals, it's all about jamming anyway."
5. Hire a random Hooters waitress for the part in a moment of weakness
when you'd had too many to drink and wondered why you were starting a
band at age 37.
6. Regret signing tone-deaf Hooters waitress.
7. Fire waitress.
8. Get hummer in back seat.
9. Realize that waitress isn't such a bad singer after all.
10. Record your song in Garageband.
11. Set up a cycle region that covers the area you wish to use in the GarageBand song.
12. Once the cycle area has been set, choose Share > Send Ringtone to iTunes.
13. Find out that the drummer's been "hitting that shit, too."
14. Refuse to pay for the baby—there's no proof it's yours.
15. It's totally yours.
16. Break up with band/waitress.
17. Move to Alaska.
18. Get a call from a special someone you hadn't thought about in some time...a ringer you hadn't heard in ages.
19. Decide to get the band, and relationship, back together.
20. Find out the drummer is "still hitting that shit."
[apple
] Thanks Jerrod!
9:14 AM ON FRI DEC 14 2007
BY MARK WILSON
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Speaking at the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress in Macau, Edgar Bronfman told mobile operators that they must not make the same mistake that the music industry made.
"We used to fool ourselves,' he said. "We used to think our content was perfect just exactly as it was. We expected our business would remain blissfully unaffected even as the world of interactivity, constant connection and file sharing was exploding. And of course we were wrong. How were we wrong? By standing still or moving at a glacial pace, we inadvertently went to war with consumers by denying them what they wanted and could otherwise find and as a result of course, consumers won."
Mobile operators risk the same, he said. Fewer than 10% of mobile owners buy music on their handset, the vast majority of which is ringtones.
"The sad truth is that most of what consumers are being offered today on the mobile platform is boring, banal and basic," he said. "People want a more interesting form of mobile music content. They want it to be easy to buy with a single click - yes, a single click, not a dozen. And they want access to it, quickly and easily, wherever they are. 24/7. Any player in the mobile value chain who thinks they can provide less than a great experience for consumers and remain competitive is fooling themselves."
Bronfman
suggested that mobile companies have much to learn from Apple, despite being critical of and iTunes in the past."For years now, Warner Music has been offering a choice to consumers at Apple's iTunes store the option to purchase something more than just single tracks, which constitute the mainstay of that store's sales," he explained. "By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variation we found products that consumers demonstrably valued and were willing to purchase at premium prices. And guess what? We've sold tons of them. And with Apple's co-operation to make discovering, accessing and purchasing these products even more seamless and intuitive, we'll be offering many, many more of these products going forward."
And the iPhone and iPod touch shows that approach can be made to work on mobile platforms, he said,
"You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window. And let me remind you, the genesis of the iPhone is the iPod and iTunes - a music device and music service that consumers love."
Bronfman appears to be experiencing an epiphany when it comes to digital music. From threatening to withdraw from iTunes and suggesting that to drop DRM would be "without logic or merit", he is now heaping praising on Apple and recently opened a DRM-free section on Warner's own Classics and Jazz music store.
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Vringo video ringtones, the ultimate caller ID
David Goldfarb's phone won't stop ringing.
The Vringo CTO is giving me a demo of Vringo's video ringtone service, now in public beta, to demonstrate how users can assign phone-formatted video clips as their outgoing ringtones. David has chosen a humorous singing cartoon of a green bear as his video calling card. He's set it up so that any phone he calls with a Vringo client will light up with his chosen video. If so desired, he could limit the output to his wife and send everyone else a much more sober video to announce his call.
Vringo reverses the conventional ringtone concept of users choosing songs to differentiate between contacts, entertain themselves with favorite songs, or make a stylistic statement. Here individuals control how they're perceived by friends, and can use "vringos" as a gift or personalized greeting. Users can upload their own clips on Vringo.com or record clips from within the Vringo phone app. It's easy to see how users could create happy birthday messages or video gifts.
From the mobile app on J2ME-enabled phones, folks can also reassign video ringtones and replay friends' videos, especially if they interrupted the video to answer the call.
It's all too good to last; Vringo won't be free much longer. In the first half of 2008, the company will adopt a pay-per-download model for premium vringos. Though they'll reserve a freebie collection, there's also that pesky data charge each time a friend swaps their clip.
"This is probably the single biggest downside of the service," Goldfarb says candidly. "We are putting in features where you can limit the number of [buddy] uploads." The upshot is that users are only charged for clip downloads once.
Voice and the Internet are converging very fast," Goldfard continues, "and moving towards being very data-centric. At that point, [charging a flat usage fee] will be much easier to do."
Perhaps they'll also come up with a way to reverse the data charges. Vringo collect, anyone?
Vringo video ringtones, the ultimate caller ID
Custom ringtone: I’m not (completely) dead yet.
We previously reported that the recent iPhone update (1.1.1) not only bricks unlocked phones and wipes out third-party software, but also disables custom ringtones—even those installed using iToner, which had previously survived such updates.
However, it turns out that the update doesn’t completely break custom ringtones. Apparently, iToner-installed ringtones remain on the phone after the update; it’s just that the phone no longer displays them in the Ringtones list. In fact, if you set a custom ringtone before applying the update, the iPhone keeps that custom ringtone after the update—it appears as the chosen ringtone on the Sounds screen, and it still works (when someone calls, the custom ringtone plays). Unfortunately, the first time you view the Ringtones screen after the update, you lose that custom ringtone.
In other words, if you really want a custom ringtone, but you also want the latest iPhone software, here’s how to get both: choose a custom ringtone, install the iPhone update, and then don’t ever access the Ringtones screen (at least not until Ambrosia figures out how to get iToner working again.) Of course, this means you should choose a custom ringtone you can live with for a while; maybe a long while…
Category: Hacking, Software, Tips & Troubleshooting
http://iphone.macworld.com/2007/09/custom_ringtone_im_not_complet_1.php
Apple early Thursday morning
released iTunes
7.4, bringing the ability to sync music (and other items) with the new
iPod nano (third generation), iPod
classic, and iPod
touch. Users can also use the software to create custom
ringtones exclusively for iPhone with some -- but not all -- of the songs
purchased from the iTunes Store. Apple also said that users can also play
purchased videos with closed captioning (when available), easily rate favorite
albums from one to five stars, and watch videos at a larger size inside the iTunes
window. The software is available as a 38.4MB update from the Software Update
control panel or via the Web
for both Mac and Windows.
http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/09/06/apple.releases.itunes.74/
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A while back, I did a review of Efiko’s iPhoneRingToneMaker.
To this day, I am still using the software. I love it, but something
that was missing, that I failed to mention in my review, was support
for protected AAC songs. So all the songs that I purchased from iTunes
(which is a lot of songs) were not able to be used as a ring tone. I
found that somewhat odd considering it was an Apple product on which I
was placing the music.
Labor Day came, and not only was I able to relax, but I was also able to import protected AAC ring tones to my iPhone. Why? Because my request was answered! On Monday (Labor Day) the maker sent me an email announcing the released copy 1.3.1 which adds support for those pesky protected songs I have been wanting to try out as a ring tone. I am a happy camper now.
iPhone is shareware, but allows you to try a full demo of their product before purchase, so check it out.
http://www.iphonematters.com/article/iphoneringtonemaker_adds_a_new_feature_234/
http://www.efksoft.com/products/iphoneringtonemaker/index.htm
An application called Song Sender has just been released.
When you run the application, it reads your entire library, creating a list of the music on your iPhone. If you tap on a song, the screen will fade out and give you a list of options: Play the song, stop playback, send to email, or send to ringtones.
It is pretty nifty. I didn’t think it would be to useful for me, but I was a little wrong. It works perfectly, and I love it.
I found this at
http://www.iphonematters.com/article/send_songs_via_email_with_your_iphone_234/
Don't let the name of iPhone hacker NateTrue's latest offering scare you away. Though you might think so from the name of it, "iBrickr" isn't designed to "brick" your iPhone. Instead, iBrickr is designed to provide easy-to-use, GUI-driven management of ringtones and third party applications for the iPhone.
Of course, like all unauthorized iPhone software/hacks, there is some risk of having to restore or repair your iPhone. It's wise to understand the risks of modifying your iPhone before embarking on the task.
That said, for too long (yes, 1month is too long) the Mac faithful have had all kinds of cool tools - like iFuntastic and Installer.app - that make iPhone modding easy. On the other side of the aisle, the Windows folks have been left with iPhoneInterface or iPHUC and lots of command line hacking. Thanks to natetrue, Windows users now have a way to customize their iPhone that is, according to iBrickr's creator, "dead simple."
iBrickr offers advanced features such as custom sound management which allows users to modify system sounds such as keyboard clicks, lock/unlock, and more.
iBrickr is uses the PXL package format for third party iPhone applications. Installing new software on your iPhone (to be clear, these are software packages that run on the iPhone, not AJAX web applications) is as simple as downloading a PXL file for an application to your computer and installing it from the applications view in iBrickr.
iBrickr's website also hosts a repository for currently released iPhone applications in PXL format. Currently, there are about 30 applications in the repository, including games, utilities, eBooks, and more.
Perhaps one of the most attractive features of iBrickr is the support. Using the 'send error report' button within the application you can send an email identifiying your problem or question and get a response back directly from the developer(s).
Visit the iBrickr website to download the latest version (0.6).
I found this at
http://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/97248
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