Recording ringtones for the Apple iPhone
In the western world (well, certainly in the UK), mobile phone ringtones represent a highly profitable market but, as I understand it, no additional revenue is passed to the recording artists - and on that basis I’m not going to line the pockets of music industry executives when I’ve already paid for music once.
One of the advantages of being an iPhone user and having a Mac at my disposal is the ability to record my own Ringtones. Whilst there are commercial products that can do this too (like iToner from Ambrosia Software), if you have Apple GarageBand 4.1.1 or later, you can record your own ringtones (40 seconds or less) and transfer them to iTunes to sync with the phone (as described in Apple support article HT1358 or with screenshots on LifeHacker). If you need to fade the ringtone in/out then adjusting the track volume is described in an AppleInsider forum post.
This capability is not new, and is pretty well documented, but I’ve spent far too much time playing around with it and now I need to go to sleep!
Posted: 0:51 on Tuesday 7 October 2008 under iPhone, iLife.
Comments: 5
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Comment from Mia
Time: Saturday 11 October 2008, 20:22
Cool! I just bought a iPhone and am going to give this a try. Thanks for the howto resources.
Comment from stu
Time: Thursday 18 December 2008, 16:19
for windows users: http://www.iringer.net/
Comment from Mark Wilson
Time: Thursday 18 December 2008, 16:22
Thanks for the tip Stu!
Good to see you around here 
Comment from Juno99
Time: Friday 17 April 2009, 19:27
Thanks for the info and the links to how to guides. I know what I’m doing over the weekend. 
Comment from iphone 4
Time: Monday 11 May 2009, 16:18
Its always a better idea to create your own ringtones then pay for ringtone of a song you already own a lincense too. But if you are listening to the song and your phone rings thats copy right infringment lol
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