Ambrosia releases iToner: iPhone ringtone manager

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.

Mike,

use audacity to edit your songs to make ringtones.

It's free it works it's simple

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........?

i use www.create-ringtone.com to make and send custom ringtones, wallpapers, MP3's and Videos to cell phones around the world

i've been playing with the demo all night... it's great... uploaded 7 of 7 songs thus far.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.