The "missing" iPhone ringtone

okay, i need some clarification on what i am doing wrong. i would greatly appreciate any advice. this is the situation:
-i have a 1st gen iphone [1.1.1] synced with my macbook (intel) itunes [7.6.2]
-i run through the process of finding the ringtone (1st one i chose to experiment with was 'telephone busy signal').
-i made a copy of it on my desktop
-imported it to garageband (i did the cycle through region-mAKING the yellow line cover all audio content)
-then i went to 'share' and exported to itunes [version 7.6.2] (it made me select -playlist, album name, composer etc & i tried it with aac compression and without)
-when it goes to itunes it is in 'music', NOT 'ringtones'
-i can get it onto the iphone only by exporting it as music on a playlist, but no NEW ringtone appears in either the 'ringtones' section of the settings.
-it never appears as a ringtone option in either itunes nor my iphone.
~could someone please, PLEASSSSSE help me

In the picture and on the commercial the picture of the person you are talking to is in the top corner? Why doesn't this happend with the phone?

Hi, maybe you would lik this one better, i did it myself and added a nice fade in so that you can use the vibrate function.

http://helderluis.net/29

That's an overly complicated way of doing your ringtones, garageband isn't needed at all.


(This little tutorial is for ANY sound file, not just for the ringtone mentioned in this article, although that will work)
All you have to do is put the sound file in iTunes and select it>get info>options and then you can select the start//stop times for your ringtone (this usually means screwing around with the song and the start time until you like it)

then press okay and right click the song again, this time click
"Convert selection to AAC" (If this is not an option then you need to change the import method in iTunes>preferences>advanced>importing and then change "import using" to AAC converter)

it will then create a 30-second-ish (30 is usually good for the ringtone, any longer will cause it to not work sometimes) AAC file in iTunes.

Drag the song to your desktop and change the file extension from "m4a" to "m4r" and when it asks you, choose "use m4r"

**THEN DELETE the original m4a file in iTunes (its not even there anyway) and drag the m4r file into the left hand column (movies music etc) and it will automatically sync them through iTunes.

=D

Garageband works fine, but i get my stuff from nakko.com works even better, I make my own ringtones, or just get from the truckloads they offer for free. the autosynch with iphone is super easy and really cool.
thanks for the tip anyway;)

I'd LOVE LOVE LOVE to customize the VoiceMail, Text, Email, etc. alerts with some of the iLife Sound Effects. Is there a hack for that, or a simple program like MakeiPhoneRingTone that does this?

Nope, close but no cigar! Anyone know the ad agency who did this? There HAS to be one of the creative types out there who has made this into a ringtone for their own iphone.

The one in the commercial is a half step higher, and the notes are not spaced a third apart, but is a single note.

This was posted on August of LAST YEAR here:
http://www.iphonehacks.com/2007/08/ringer-volume.html

At the bottom of the post you can download the ringtone directly if you don't want to convert it yourself. It's also been amplified.

Yes, I've been using the iLife/Apple-supplied sound FX for all my ringtones (as I don't like musical ones at all) There are some excellent "techy" sounding ones that I think fit the iPhone nicely. :)

The only concession was that my girlfriend "insisted" that I use the "24" ringtone for her calls! :)

are you guys serious? only now you think to look there? not only it's a lame ring, but you call yourselves mac users?