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Cleverboy discovers ultimate ringtone hack

Hacker par excellence Cleverboy, aka Dudley, has pretty much figured out what makes ringtones ringtones as far as iTunes is concerned. He discovered an atom in the m4a metadata that identifies the file's role. He downloaded a copy of AtomicParsley, the command-line metadata editor, and after a bit of hacking discovered that setting the "stik" metadata to 14 turned any aac file into a ringtone. He writes, "The file immediately appeared in my ringtone list, and after syncing, it appeared on my phone without one iota of complaint. --NONE".

The command in question is as follows:

AtomicParsley mmbop.m4a --stik value=14



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Hacker par excellence Cleverboy, aka Dudley, has pretty much figured out what makes ringtones ringtones as far as iTunes is concerned. He...
 

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nicolas

RingRong Version 1.1 is out, fixes some issues: http://www.iphone-ticker.de/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/ringrong11app.zip

@david: only difference: its a dropplet. you dont have to start a programm, it uses the cleverboy-command and make a backup of the original file. see the source in "/RingRong.app/Contents/Resources/script"

September 13 2007 at 5:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David Chartier

@Nicolas: so is that droplet different from Rogue Amoeba's?

http://www.rogueamoeba.com/utm/posts/Article/MakeiPhoneRingtone-2007-09-11-09-00

September 13 2007 at 12:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
basscadet

yay !!! nice !!!

September 13 2007 at 10:40 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
nicolas

We made a dropplet: RingRong. It will backup the original file and than edit it with atomic parsley. after that, you only need to double-click and voila - it an itunes ringtone.
Download and short demo-video can be found here:
http://www.iphone-ticker.de/2007/09/13/download-video-klingeltone-mit-ringrong/

September 13 2007 at 8:59 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Robert

@Aron #17
That .app only runs on Mac and is likely not using iTunes as the actual transport allowing you to actually manage your homegrown ringtones in iTunes and sync them to the iPhone just as you would your other non-itunes purchased music (CDs and such)

Some of us are still firmly in the grip of our Windows platforms so, even if that ringtone maker were to automate the Atom change, it wouldn't help us Windies...no flames please :-)

September 13 2007 at 1:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
nick z

Any way to make the phone ring louder? I have it on max, and still miss calls sometimes when there is lots of background noise!

September 12 2007 at 6:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Alex

@mini
it's "stik" without the C.
that should help?

September 12 2007 at 3:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
aron t

Why would someone use this instead of just using MakeiPhoneRingtone.app? Is there something wrong with it; my DSL at home still does not work and I haven't gotten the chance to test it?

September 12 2007 at 2:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nik

have others tried this out? Running this command doesn't change my "stick" value...it still says 'Normal'. Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong?

September 12 2007 at 2:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Craig

I too would like to know if these ringtones will work on non iPhones. I have an A900M Samsung from Sprint and would like more ringers..... Thx.

September 12 2007 at 2:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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