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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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 Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHeres a video I found usefull
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAUA1QYOgGY
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
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 Permalink rate up rate down Replyif 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 Permalink rate up rate down Replyi 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 Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI 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.
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
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 Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI 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 Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI 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 Permalink rate up rate down Replyitunes 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
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
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