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iTunes 7.5 and iPhone 1.1.2 return custom ringtones

For reasons I do not begin to understand, the combination of iTunes 7.5 and the 1.1.2 iPhone once again allow you to add custom ringtones without fussing with property lists and special software. Take any m4a file, thirty-seconds or less (although some report success with tracks up to 40 seconds), rename it to m4r and double-click to add it to iTunes. The file appears in your ringtones and can be synched--I tested this out myself--to your iPhone.

So has Apple relented? Or is this a momentary lapse of oversight? Only time will tell.

Thanks to Dave P



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For reasons I do not begin to understand, the combination of iTunes 7.5 and the 1.1.2 iPhone once again allow you to add custom ringtones...
 

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Chris

Does anyone know if this method is broken by updated to firmware 1.1.3 and iTunes 7.6?

January 19 2008 at 8:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Raju

Heres a video I found usefull
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAUA1QYOgGY

January 10 2008 at 6:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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rscow

Here is what worked for me (on my Macbook Pro). Select file you want and open in Audacity. Edit your selection and save as .wav or .mp3. Use iTunes to convert to .aac (mp4a). Then change the extension to .mp4r.

Then use AFPd on the iphone (install via installer.app) and open the phone on the desktop. Drop new ringtones into your /Library/Ringtones folder.

Mine all showed up and work fine. I have left iTunes sync out of the process.

Roger

January 17 2008 at 10:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Pb

I M USING IPHONE 1.0.2.......(I DONT WANNA UPDATE IT ) ...CAN ANY 1 HELP HOW SHOULD I SYNC.RINGTONES TO MY IPHONE ...........I HAV ALREADY ADDED RINGTONES TO MY RINGTONES FOLDER IN ITUNES......PLS GUYS HELP ME OUT

January 10 2008 at 11:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Pb

if my iphone version is 1.0.2 ........can any one help me this(i dont want to update my iphone)......how will i be able to add ringtones to my iphone

January 10 2008 at 11:03 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
joe p brown

i have done all what has been explained, im on windows home edi, i have my ringtones on itunes and synced on my iphone, i can see and play them on my phone in ringtones, but when i select one as a ring tone it does not play when someone calls, i get the old tone play not a custom one. does anyone know a fix for this on windows. thanks joe

January 05 2008 at 3:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rob

I was having similar problems to others - no problems with any steps, and iTunes appeared to sync my ringtones to iPhone, but when I look for customer ringtones on iPhone, they don't appear, only built-in Apple ringtones.

When I first got iPhone, I used the program independence to "jailbreak" my iPhone and install ssh. I also had tried to install and execute anySIM, but it didn't work as my iPhone was 1.1.2 OTB. It occurred to me that perhaps some of this screwing around was getting in the way of syncing ringtones. I launched independence and "returned to jail," then opened iTunes and it synced ringtones with NO PROBLEMS. I was able to find and play my custom ringtones on my iPhone.

I am VERY CURIOUS to know if other posters experiencing this perceived sync failure had also "jailbreaked" their iPhones.

January 04 2008 at 10:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jakob.B

I was having the same problem with the file showing under iTunes ringtones but not syncing over to the phone. I finally got it to work and wrote out step by step what I did. I'm using XP corp. Also you may want to open windows explorer and go to tools> folder options> view> uncheck hide extensions for known file types. Some steps may not be necessary but this is exactly how I did it and it works fine on mine.

Here are my steps I hope it helps
Download and install audacity

create folder on desktop called: Ringtones

open audacity

then click file -> open -> select your audio file

edit the audio to something around 30sec as stated previously

then when you have the snippet you want go to file -> export as WAV

navigate to the Ringtones folder on desktop and save the file in there ( i renamed each slightly to not get any duplicate error message.)

now open iTunes and the Ringtones folder

drag the .wav file from your ringtone folder into the iTunes library

now go to the music section of library and find the .wav file you just put in (usually at the bottom... if you are unsure which song is the .wav just right click and get info it'll tell ya.)

once you see the.wav file right click it and convert to AAC

it should create duplicate song right under the .wav file

now right click the newly created file and click get info... it should be labeled an AAC audio file.

now right click the AAC file and select show in windows explorer

it should open a folder with the file highlighter as songname.m4a

right click and rename the file as songname.m4r

accept the little warning windows is prone to give

it should change the icon as a RING icon

double click the RING file

it should take you directly to iTunes and start playing the file in the ringtones option in the library

now connect your iPhone and wait for it to sync

now go to the Ringtones tab under the devices option and click sync ringtones and click the radio button for selected ringtones

check each ringtone you want and then sync your phone

December 28 2007 at 11:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
nick

i have tried all of the above. i see my ringtone but it does not sync. i have iTunes 7.5.0 and 1.1.2

December 23 2007 at 6:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Meiji

I can found the ringtones in my iphone, but I can't hear it as a ringtone >_

December 22 2007 at 12:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Host_Killer

I was in the process of uploading one last ringtone (5) and I lost ALL my ringtones... HELP!!!!

December 11 2007 at 8:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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peter

itunes 7.5.0.20
iphone 1.1.2

I've tried all the suggestions up to this point without success. I can see the ringtones in the ringtones folder in iTunes but they do not appear on the iPhone itself after syncing. Any more ideas

December 21 2007 at 3:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
peter

Actually the solution to my problem was this: (hopefully will help someone else out there who has the same issue)

Uncheck the Sync Ringtones box in the Ringtones tab
Sync
Check the Sync Ringtones box
Sync again

December 21 2007 at 3:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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