3 Ways To Get iPhone 3G Ringtones
Posted August 7th, 2008 | 2 Comments
If you’ve had your iPhone for more than 5 minutes you will have noticed the that included ringtones are a bit crap! And for some reason, Apple don’t make it easy for you too add your own custom ringtones.
That’s not to say it isn’t possible though! Here are the best 3 ways to get custom ringtones on your iPhone 3G.
1. Create Your Own Custom Ringtones in iTunes
This way is the best because it’s totally free. You can make a ringtone from any of the the tracks already in your iTunes library (except, unfortunately it seems not to work with tracks purchased from the iTunes store).
I wrote this blog post explaining exactly how to do it. It works perfectly for me and 1000s of other people, some have left comments saying so, others have emailed to let me know.
Unfortunately there still appears to be some people having difficulty getting it to work. I have tested and researched as much as possible to resolve peoples problems but it works great for me and not them. If you are one of those unfortunate people, check out ways 2 and 3.
2. Create Custom Ringtones With….
If you have a Mac you can use GarageBand to create your ringtones. Simply import any audio file, clip it down to under 40 seconds and then choose ‘Save As iPhone Ringtone’.
Another great Mac program is AudialHub which allows you to convert from any type of audio track including mp3, aac, flac, wav, ogg etc… it also has a ‘Save As iPhone Ringtone’ option.
If you have a PC you can use the imaginatively titled iPhone Ringtone Maker.
Please be aware that both AudialHub and iPhone Ringtone Maker are paid for apps. You may wish to try a subscription approach….
3. Receive iPhone Ringtones Via Subscription
RingtoneFeeder is a paid subscription service ($1.98US/mo. or $19.98US/year) that allows you to download songs and other audio files to use as ringtones on your iPhone.
When you subscribe you will get the latest 10 iPhone ringtones released and then at least two new ringtones every week for as long as you are subscribed. The ringtones are optimised for iPhone and sounds great.
Garry
05.09.08
I live in England and am thinking of buying the new iphone 3g.
I want to add my own ringtones to do this and knew there are many programs that let me create my own ringtones.
The problem is that I have no Ringtone tab on my itunes.
Does this appear when I connect an iphone to my computer?
Shaun
05.09.08
Garry: Go to iTunes Preferences from the menu bar (iTunes/Preferences for Mac or Edit/Preferences for PC) and in the General tab you will see a number of checkboxes for Movies, TV Shows, Podcasts etc… Just tick the Ringtones box and it will appear in your sidebar :)
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