Apple iphone

[White Lion]

Hey Paul, If you are a Mac user, you can use the iLife Garage Band application to create a ring tone from any Audio file. It is simple to do, simply drag the desired audio file into garage band, edit it to the desired length, then select share as ring tone. The file will appear under ring tones in the iTunes App and be ready for transfer to your iPhone.

Hmm.. tried to do this, but it didn't want to select any of my itunes songs.  I went into garageband, then ringtones, tried to select file but no luck???

Where am i going wrong??

[craigo]

I use this thing to make ringtones on Windows http://www.iringer.net/ and it works a treat.  You just drag 'em into itunes and automagically show up.

Finally, now *I* am that guy with the annoying custom ringtones that leaves his phone on the desk in the office set to loud when he goes out to lunch. The circle is complete.

[DucaChic]

White Lion

When you start Garage Band, select "New Project" from the Menu, Select "Loops". This will create a "New Song" file on your Mac. Once the Garage Band desktop loads, open iTunes, find the song you wish to edit, drag it onto the Garage Band Desk top. As long as it is not a protected song file, it will copy onto the Time Line. Using the Garage Band Editing tools, select the portion of the song you wish to use and set the loop duration (40 sec or less) over that portion. Make any other edits (volume, reverb, etc.) before sharing to Itunes. From the task menu, select "Share", then "Share Ringtone to iTunes". That should do it.

[craigo]

wow, i thought doing shit on macs was supposed to be easy 

[loony888]

wow, i thought doing shit on macs was supposed to be easy 

on macs it is, these iPhones though, too many restrictions for my liking, i can't believe it won't let me download media players and use my music as a ringtone if i want to. i may have to jailbreak it to get it to do what i expect of it. it's rediculous, they sell an awesome, powerful phone/pocket laptop or whatever but then restrict what you can do with it.

paul.

[Vinnnn]

 i may have to jailbreak it to get it to do what i expect of it. it's rediculous, they sell an awesome, powerful phone/pocket laptop or whatever but then restrict what you can do with it.

+1
Its a completely different phone once its jailbroken. Im borrowing an old 3G iphone, and the only reason I havent bought my own is because they havent worked out how to jailbreak the new ones yet..
I mean, once its jailbroken you can download all of the itunes apps for free, but there is a million more reasons to do it, EVERYTHING becomes customisable, you can load custom themes, etc.

[White Lion]

White Lion

When you start Garage Band, select "New Project" from the Menu, Select "Loops". This will create a "New Song" file on your Mac. Once the Garage Band desktop loads, open iTunes, find the song you wish to edit, drag it onto the Garage Band Desk top. As long as it is not a protected song file, it will copy onto the Time Line. Using the Garage Band Editing tools, select the portion of the song you wish to use and set the loop duration (40 sec or less) over that portion. Make any other edits (volume, reverb, etc.) before sharing to Itunes. From the task menu, select "Share", then "Share Ringtone to iTunes". That should do it.

Thanks for that, it was frustrating me for a while not knowing how to do it 

[Dannog]

I got one for Xmas (from myself) put in the work sim card from the blackberry and changed the plan over for 2gb

I can't tell you how much I love this phone . I've used heps of different phones for work and I especially hated my Blackberry. I'd only read or respond to emails on it rarely. With the iphone it so easy to use. I have macs at home and windows at work so it was a little tricky to get everything syncing the way I wanted it to.

TIP.....buy the phone from the Apple store. You get it from them unlocked! That way you can use any carrier you want and change when you want to. Australia is just about the ONLY country in the world where Apple haven't stitched up a deal directly with a Telco (like AT&T in the US) For once we are the lucky ones.

[timmyc]

Odd first post, but thought I should share this link: easy way to do ringtones if you use iTunes for your music collection.

http://theappleblog.com/2008/08/07/free-custom-iphone-ringtones-using-only-itunes/