Ringtone Subscriptions in iTunes
Here's a clever concept that I would never have dreamed up myself in a million years: iTunes ringtone podcasts! The idea is this: you subscribe to podcast that delivers ringtones to iTunes and allows you to sync them directly to your iPhone. I gave it a try, downloading one "episode" and sure enough it was immediately available for iPhone syncing. There aren't a lot of ringtones at this point -- just variations on the teen/mosquito high-frequency buzz -- but as a proof of concept, it's very neat indeed. Hopefully others will pick up this idea and run with it. I'm not a big ringtone aficionado personally but I know a lot of people will love this -- especially for well chosen ringtones sampled from real life.
Thanks, Klaus.
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I've tried a couple of different ringtone podcasts and each time I sync more than one custom ringtone to my iPhone all I end up with is duplicates of the first ringtone on my list. Anyone else have this happen?
March 25 2008 at 11:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYes, That happens to me EVERY time. It is very annoying as I can only have one ringtone.
March 26 2008 at 12:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI created a ringtone podcast over a year ago, tried to add stuff that was a little different to your usual fare. It lost it's fun when I got a polite letter threatening legal action when I used sound I ripped from a popular flash cartoon. So I stopped doing it.
March 25 2008 at 8:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI am not sure what I am doing wrong, but the tones are in my iTunes, and show on the Device/iPhone/Ringtones and I synced all the tones, but they do not show up on my iPhone. Any ideas?
I am on iPhone software version 1.1.4
If you don't sync the actual podcast, it doesn't work at all. I had the same issue.
March 25 2008 at 10:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOne thing that I have done on my iPhone, which makes things SOOOO much easier for me, I use GarageBand and then use Leopards 'Alex' voice (you can find scripts to go from type to audio) to add names to the beginning of the ringtone, so when you are listening to your headphones , the phone announces who is calling (you have to make 1 ringtone for every user you want this for and assign it to that contact, but it's free!)
If anyone know another way to do this via a utility, please let me know!
itpc://web.mac.com/francisreal/Home/Podcast/rss.xml
here is mine. mine are mostly synth/polyphonic sounding ringtones contrived from indie songs.
WOOPS
itpc://web.mac.com/francisreal/Home/Indietones/rss.xml
changed the link
Okay, here's something that always has bothered me. Why doesn't the iPhone come loaded with the ringtone that is used in the commercial? Anyone here happen to have it on hand?
March 24 2008 at 6:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply@ NAKKO,
Thanks man, I had a look at the site, looks great and it actually works on my iphone.
@Daniel and Scot,
These guys at NAKKO have truckloads of ringtones for your iphone and I also saw a create your own button (didn't check that one out yet) but I guess you can even upload your own and let them turn it into a ringtone.
p.s. also works on my girlfriends nokia that needs AMR format so I have to say, thumbs up for NAKKO.
Anyway to filter out all the musical ones? I can't find a tag to search for...
March 24 2008 at 4:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHere's the best idea. Don't use ringtones at all. There is nothing more irritating than listening to someone's phone belting out some annoying song over and over at maximum volume from someone's pocket and they let it ring 3 or 4 times before they answer. Seriously? What's wrong with people?
March 24 2008 at 4:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe iPhone's speaker sucks and you'll never hear it. The only one that's aware that the ringtone is playing is the owner when his pocket vibrates.
And even those vibrations are vague. It's so easy to miss a call.
I have used GarageBand to make a few simple musical "non-musical" ringtones.
March 24 2008 at 4:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyGeez, we've been doing this for two months now at http://nakko.com . Always nice to see that others pick up your good ideas....
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