What’s interesting about this checkbox is that it appeared out of the blue today it wasn’t visible in iTunes 7.4.1 until after the iTunes Store turned on ringtone support.Īlso: You can’t drag ringtones out of the Ringtones library in the main iTunes window. There’s a checkbox in the iTunes preferences dialog that controls whether the Ringtones sub-library appears in the list. Now that ringtones are available from the iTunes Store, iTunes offers an additional top-of-the-source-list sub-library named “Ringtones”: The Ringtone Sub-Library Source List Preference Perhaps whoever wrote the copy for this dialog was simply too ashamed to spell it out: iTunes will not allow you to use any non-iTunes Store audio file with its built-in Create Ringtone feature. ITunes: You can turn some of those songs over there into ringtones. User: I’d like to turn this song right here into a ringtone. It’s like a politician who’s asked a pointed question about topic A, and responds with a non sequitur talking point regarding topic B. Think about how weaselly this wording is. More absurd is the error dialog iTunes displays when you invoke the Create Ringtone command on a track that wasn’t purchased from iTunes, like, say, any MP3 or AAC file ripped from a CD: ![]() “Can no longer be made into a ringtone”? Anyway, obviously the Create Ringtone command should only be enabled when you’ve selected ringtone-able songs you shouldn’t have to invoke the command to find out if it’s ringtone-able, and, at least for me, you can’t trust the ringtone icons in the track listings. With other not-marked-as-ringtone-able tracks purchased from the iTunes Store, however, you get an error message as soon as you select them and choose Create Ringtone: ![]() ![]() (After synching my iPhone, it appeared and works just fine in the phone’s ringtone list.) The ringtone waveform selection tool appeared at the bottom of the window, I chose a 15-second clip, clicked Buy, and just like that, created and paid for a ringtone from a song that didn’t have the “you can turn this into a ringtone” marker in either my library or the iTunes Store. In the iTunes Store, however, the album shows four ringtone-able tracks: “Jesus, Etc.”, “Pot Kettle Black”, “Ashes of American Flags”, and “Radio Cure”.Ĭurious, I went back to my iTunes library and control-clicked on a supposedly non-ringtone-able track from that album, “Kamera”. I tried it on my wife’s system, and it worked just fine, displaying the ringtone icon next to many of the same tracks I have in my library.įor example, in my iTunes library, Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is listed with zero ringtone icons. After turning on the new Ringtones column in iTunes’s View Options dialog, not one of the nearly 300 songs I’ve purchased from the iTunes Store was listed as being ringtone-able. Don’t blame us, blame the dopes at the music labels.īut, anyway, the feature didn’t work. Trust us, we’d love to sell them all to you as ringtones. Which, reading between the lines, seems to translate to: Look, we know it sucks that only some of the songs in the iTunes Store are available as ringtones. When I first launched iTunes today, I was prompted with this dialog box: Give them a call to see if this might work for you.Ways in Which iTunes’s Just-Released Official Ringtone Support Is Weird, Rude, and/or Just Plain Buggy Wednesday, 12 September 2007 Determining Which Songs Are Ringtone-Able If their plans don't offer adequate data, you could use one of their inexpensive phones for voice & text, and use your smartphone in Airplane Mode with WiFi enabled for E-maiil and web browsing. you may not be able to get a large data allotment with these SIM's.your phone would have to be unlocked in order to accept a SIM from a different network.number, the caller should hear a normal North American ringback tone. ![]() One possibility might be to use a SIM other than that of your home network, such as one from iRoam. I've never heard of any method that could be used to alter the ringback tone, although there certainly could be one. I've found when calling numbers in England that the distinctive double ring is heard, which duplicates the cadence of the ringer on the phone. The ringback tone is generated by the switching network in each country based on their standards, so that's what the caller will usually hear.
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