Filed under: iPod Family, iTS, iTunes, iPhone
Re-authorizing your computer for Ringtones
You authorized your computer to your iTunes account long, long ago. So why don't your iTunes Ringtones sync to your iPhone? Turns out that you're going to have to reauthorize your computer to allow it to use ringtones. Yes, not only do you have to sign a new terms of service to buy that ringtone but you also have to add a separate authorization.
Ah, there's nothing quite like the smell of RIAA in the morning.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
GadgetGav said 12:21PM on 9-11-2007
WTF with the 'read' link connecting to a Google search of piracy..?
Is that supposed to be funny..? Why not link us to the new terms of service, or some analysis of what's changed..?
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joshjagdfeld said 12:33PM on 9-11-2007
Why analyze something so incredibly asinine? It would be an exercise in futility.
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Otsego_Undead said 12:41PM on 9-11-2007
wow. simply wow. (no, not THAT WoW).
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mboto said 1:03PM on 9-11-2007
erica sadun, you sadden me.
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Jon said 1:05PM on 9-11-2007
Is that song from Hairspray? You crack me up...
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Aron Trimble said 1:22PM on 9-11-2007
wow..
What saddens me is the multiple commenters above me that are CLEARLY unable to understand a little sarcastic wit!
@1 It's just a post on a blog, no related article... the read link is a JOKE
@2 It's called an opinion piece - go somewhere else
@4 You also sadden me
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Evan Silverman said 1:54PM on 9-11-2007
This is probably so you can't email ringtones, right??
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GadgetGav said 2:54PM on 9-11-2007
@Aron,
On the one hand, bloggers are trying to say they're the 21st century's journalists... on the other hand there's posts like this and comment-baiting 'what do you think' posts that are becoming more common on here. Which is it going to be..? Sites like TUAW need to decide.
Why should the read link be a joke? There could have been an article here...
It's not an opinion piece. Look at some of Gruber's opinion pieces to see what a real opinion piece is. This looks like a news piece, but there's nothing there...
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Erick Erickson said 3:50PM on 9-11-2007
I've created a couple of ringtones, just playing around with them. They are noticeably louder than the regular ringtones. Much, much louder.
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GadgetGav said 7:31AM on 9-12-2007
See what I mean..?
http://daringfireball.net/2007/09/weird_rude_buggy
*THIS* is an opinion piece AND some detail on how the terms of service have changed. That is what this piece could have been if Erica had put any effort into it. Actually, I doubt that, but maybe she'd have got closer.
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