Making iPhone Ringtones

Update: Works with firmware 1.1.2 Update: No longer works with firmware 1.1.1

So with the announcement of non-hacked ringtone support, I set out to get me a ringtone. The problem: I don't have much purchased iTunes music. Most of my music I've ripped myself to FLAC and converted to MP3 with Oggify. So iTunes won't let me make ringtones from those. A bummer, because their editor looked pretty slick.

Instead I've come up with my own method for making ringtones, taking advantage of Open Sources apps.

  1. Use Audactiy to trim out 30 seconds from a FLAC file. Add space at the end if desired.
  2. Export out to WAVE.
  3. Use afconvert (in /Developer/Examples/CoreAudio/Services/AudioFileTools, you'll need to build it yourself).
  4. afconvert -f m4af -d 'aac ' -b 192000 [file-name]
  5. Edit the tags as needed.
  6. Use MakeiPhoneRingtone to load it into ...

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