Ringtones! Turn your iphone's music into Ringtones

[x999x]

I found this post over on MMi, and if their site wasn't festering with inline sponsored Ads I'd just tell ya to head there to find out more.

Anyway, Skrew has released a cool application to convert your NON-DRM Songs to Ringtones



Its pretty easy to use, and it basically uses the first 30 seconds of whatever song you choose. Or, you can select the starting point in your song, and use the following 30 seconds as your ringtone! (new to 2.0)

The install is pretty simple, although you will need make sure you have the following:

- BSD Subsystem
- SUID Lib fix (only if you have 1.1.3/4) !

Add this source on installer to download : http://i.danstaface.net

Note: There is a one time download of a 2.6 meg binary which is part of the program. The author chose to make this a post install file on its own because the author wanted to save himself bandwidth on updates. By making this binary separate, you only ever need to download it once instead of having it download with each update he makes (there were already 3 updates today for example).

Category: Multimedia
Name: Ringtones!

[fsas06]

so u have tried it ant it works great ??

[x999x]

Yep, works like a charm. You may experience a bit of an issue on your first go, but everything after that is smooth sailing.

Take notice however, that DRM'd songs won't make the switch, only DRM-Free songs can be converted.

[fsas06]

this doesnt change my music it just makes a "copy" of the song it a ringtone format with out having to do it on the pc ??

[x999x]

Yeah, it takes a 30 sec clip or so of the song and dumps it into the /Library/Ringtones folder.

Your original file is left untouched.

[overture1986]

ok. I installed it and it seems to have worked. It shows up in the ringtones list but it only previews about five seconds of it so I dont know if it completely worked or if its just going to play the first five seconds over and over. Just have to wait for a call and see.

[x999x]

Originally Posted by overture1986

ok. I installed it and it seems to have worked. It shows up in the ringtones list but it only previews about five seconds of it so I dont know if it completely worked or if its just going to play the first five seconds over and over. Just have to wait for a call and see.

I did a little reading around and apparently, its a common quirk with the program that your first ringtone may playback incorrectly. Interestingly, every ringtone created after that works fine. The author is trying to track down this bug, but the fact that it works fine after the 1st try leads me to believe hes fine with things as they are. Its taken him quite a bit of work and updates in the passed few days to even get the application to this point.

That said, give it another go by first deleting your ringtone from the ringtones menu in this application, followed by creating a new one. It should work just fine at that point, and if you still run in to problems it may be because the song you're trying to convert is protected with DRM, i.e. its a song you bought from iTunes.

[Alexander]

No go for me.

When I try to create a ringtone, it never shows up under the ringtone section. I've tried to make around 20. I'm on 1.1.3.

[SaltyOnionBalls]

I think creating ringtones thru iTunes is much easier.

[x999x]

Originally Posted by Alexander

No go for me.

When I try to create a ringtone, it never shows up under the ringtone section. I've tried to make around 20. I'm on 1.1.3.

Do these songs contain DRM, Digital Rights Management?

In other words, did you buy them from iTunes? If so they will not convert to ringtones unfortunately.

If this is the case, I just burn them to an audio CD and just rerip them since a loss in quality is moot for ringtones.

@ SaltyOnionBalls

Duely noted when you have a desktop available.