Ambrosia releases iToner: iPhone ringtone manager
Ambrosia today released iToner, a new piece of Mac software to manage custom iPhone ringtones. iToner allows you to create iPhone ringtones just by dropping audio files on the faux iPhone interface and syncing. Best of all it does not require any kind of "modifying, hacking or having to reset your iPhone." Of course there are free ways of doing something similar, though without the nice eye candy. And rumor has it that Apple itself will shortly get into the ringtone business, though personally I'd rather pay once than be nickle-and-dimed for each and every ringtone.In any case, iToner is available now for $15 and a demo is available so you can check it out for yourself.
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Anthony said 1:46PM on 8-31-2007
I just purchased this app and it works flawlessly, even with protected iTunes tracks.
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Weweinc said 11:41PM on 9-01-2007
If the program did a little more like change icons and themes like a soild form of ifuntastic then mabe its worth the 15 dollers for your pocket that you work for. Mabe
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St3phen said 2:32PM on 8-31-2007
Mat, et al, the difference here is that iToner doesn't require hacking the phone. Unlike iFuntastic, Song Sender, etc, iToner won't cause you grief when it's time to perform an update to the iPhone and make you have to suffer through a Restore. This is a brand new method of installing ringtones that is supposed to survive updates with the ringtones intact.
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tendo said 3:07PM on 8-31-2007
ok sendSong does this for you FOR FREEEEEEEE, just install sendSong.. send to ringtones. Pretty nice app but not for monies.
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Macroy said 2:50PM on 8-31-2007
This looks pretty great, but I'm probably going to wait until the September 5th event before I drop any money on a ringtone program. Because, what if the iTunes Ringtone Maker Whatever Magic Program is free for music you already have?
Please, Apple?
Please?
...[sets aside $15]
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basscadet said 3:08PM on 8-31-2007
once again, outside developers save us from crippleware. well done!
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Andy said 5:51PM on 8-31-2007
So, how does this work? Ambrosia's website says iToner doesn't hack or modify iPhone in any way, but it doesn't explain what it DOES do in order to get an mp3 into the ringtone list. I'm looking for an (only slightly technical) explanation of how the program accomplishes its task, so I can evaluate this "no hacks, no mods" claim for myself.
Thanks.
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dokihara said 5:55PM on 8-31-2007
http://pastebin.com/m2dac321e
I wrote a technical write-up on how to add ringtones to your iPhone without jailbreaking. I am sure this is the same solution they have come up with. We have a GUI app currently released in Beta 1.1, but we do not have the hosting to make it completely public yet. That's coming soon!! OPEN SOURCE! GNU v2.
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tendo said 6:23PM on 8-31-2007
I tested the above when the writer was first attempting it. works really well, and after using iToner, it seems its working off of that same paper.
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Dave said 8:28PM on 8-31-2007
Or just install iphonedisk and copy the mp3 files into the Library/Ringtones folder.
http://code.google.com/p/iphonedisk/
I'm sure this is the same thing iToner's doing, using the private MobileDevice framework to write files to the jailed (i.e., safe) area of the phone.
I haven't seen iToner, but a mate says it's the most nag-tastic app on the planet.
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Tom Biro said 3:27AM on 9-01-2007
Not in love with iToner just yet. Running the demo tonight, and out of about 50 songs I tried, I got one to successfully load onto the iPhone without a problem. It gives an error message that vanishes before I can read it, and there's unfortunately no commentary out there just yet or details on the FAQ. Theoretically, this will work really well, just haven't had any luck with it.
Would prefer to use the Google Code chunk, and can see how easy that is, but there's no information on how to manually update the Ringtoneplist file at all, which seems to be what iToner is doing for you, hence it showing up. Moving right along...
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eyo said 4:01AM on 9-01-2007
i've been playing with the demo all night... it's great... uploaded 7 of 7 songs thus far.
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steve campbel said 5:12AM on 9-01-2007
i use www.create-ringtone.com to make and send custom ringtones, wallpapers, MP3's and Videos to cell phones around the world
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Mike said 8:25PM on 9-01-2007
Just downloaded the demo and adding a ringtone to a phone has never been easier.
I will buy the full version if there is a way to sample a song from my library instead of uploading the entire song. I know there has got to be a way........?
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mstngo said 10:12PM on 9-01-2007
Mike,
use audacity to edit your songs to make ringtones.
It's free it works it's simple
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John said 5:45PM on 9-02-2007
I downloaded and purchased the app. It's annoying that Apple hasn't provided this functionality yet, but $15 was (for me) cheap enough. I moved eight songs over, some purchased from iTunes (and protected) and some ripped from my own CDs, and they've all worked without a hitch. I just created a "Ringtones" playlist, and used the program to automatically sync over everything on that list.
The functionality I'd really like to see is for the program to let you pick the 30 seconds of the clip you want to use as the ringtone and just bring over those snippets. Sure, I can do this in another app, but it'd be nice to have this more seamless in a commercial package.
Regardless, I just thought folks would like to know: it works.
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