So, I helped Mike with getting new ringtones for his iPhone 3G without paying the ridiculous $2 per tone. Well, the system I showed him works just fine, but only for the Mac. I found an easier way that as far as I can tell works. Unfortunately, I don’t have an iPhone 3G (yet) to test this, so I’m going to show you guys the video and have you guys tell me whether or not it works.
When I followed this procedure, sure enough, I have a 30 second snippet of a Bad Religion song in my Ringtones list. I did this on iTunes 7.7.1, but like I said, I don’t have an iPhone to put the ringtone on to, so try it out and tell me if it works for you.
Now, I’m going to try to edit a song down with Audacity and see if it works that way too. Hold on a sec.
Yeah, I did it. Turns out though, that Audacity won’t output to AAC, so I exported the clip in MP3. Generally, I export the audio as the same filetype and bitrate as it was imported. Then I used dBpoweramp Music Converter to convert it to AAC and changed the filename to m4r. Maybe the video’s method is a bit easier, but I like to have a lot of control over my ringtones.
Good luck and let me know how it goes.
Works perfectly. I imported a few songs into ringtones and worked great. You da man!!!
Sweet mother of balls, it works!
Thanks!
Oh, and Mary told me to tell you thanks as well. Apparently this post was a hit. I wouldn't know, of course, because I'm not a member of the iphone club. Ya'lls some snobs.
Ok, I'll bite. What DOES it mean to verify my post?
Oh, now apparently I'm registered with disqus.