PocketMac Ringtone Studio for iPhone

Information Appliance Associates, the company that brought us the PocketMac series of sync software, has announced PocketMac Ringtone Studio for iPhone.

While the $14.95 application doesn't do anything that you can't already do with GarageBand and a little bit of knowledge, it does make creation of custom iPhone ringtones a lot easier. You can drag any unprotected music or QuickTime movie file to PocketMac Ringtone Studio, select a 30-second bit for the ringtone, and then export the ringtone into the iTunes "Ringtones" folder. The video above shows the entire process, along with a strange "jazz and random banging on the piano" soundtrack.

There are some other alternatives available for creating your own ringtones:

Rogue Amoeba's MakeiPhoneRingtone (free)
Ambrosia Software's iToner (free to try, $15 to buy)

As usual, the PocketMac folks offer a 90-day "no questions" money back guarantee on their software.

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Source: http://pocketmac.net/products/ringtonestudio/index.html

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Laze

Plenty of free ringtones and alarmtones on the net too. I like the ones at http://www.iphoneringtones.ca because they're not all songs! I don't want my phone to ring like the radio!! They should call those songtones!

September 22 2008 at 6:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Phosphor

>>>"...along with a strange "jazz and random banging on the piano" soundtrack."

What an odd opinion to shoehorn into a quick review. "Randon banging," eh? Guess you don't know squat about jazz, do you? And what do you know of the folks who read this blog. Apparently, not enough.

I'd like to see your iTunes Library, Mr. Sande. Might be fun to make snide remarks about some of the dumabass music you've collected, too.

:â€¢D

July 02 2008 at 7:21 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Steven Sande

Hey, I just live for abuse from commenters like yourself. Who was saying anything about YOUR iTunes Library anyway? I was just commenting that I thought their choice of background music for this video was strange. And if you were to look at MY iTunes Library, you'd find that it's full of jazz from the 1930's to the present. I also have a huge collection of blues, rock, and classical.

TUAW Steve

July 02 2008 at 10:22 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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You can create custom ring tones through ITUNES!!! For free!!! That $15 could pay for one month of the rate increase for the iPhone 3G :-)

July 01 2008 at 8:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mark

I make my ringtones with garage band or with MakeiPhoneRingtone (Mac) or with iDemocracy (Windows). All free options.

July 01 2008 at 3:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chris Obdam

Well I use http://nakko.com for creating my iPhone ringtones. Anyone else familiar with Nakko.com? $14.95 is a lot of money compared to a free website ;-)

July 01 2008 at 2:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Fritz Laurel

This video somehow manages to suck all of the fun and joy out of ringtones. Or, maybe I'm just being exceptionally ADD this morning - lol

July 01 2008 at 2:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

William Hook

How do you use existing songs and make custom ringtones with GarageBand anyway?

July 01 2008 at 2:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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mark

This is how it is done with "original" recordings (i.e. your own material):

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1358?viewlocale=en_US

July 01 2008 at 2:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply