So I’m about a month into my iPhone ownership, and I have to say I love it, love it, love it!
My biggest – but still relatively minor – disappointment, however, is regarding ringtones. The phone comes equipped with a handful of boring generic tones.
Somehow I had been under the impression that I could use any song in my iTunes library as a ringtone, but that’s not the case.
You can only use songs you’ve purchased directly from iTunes (usually 99 cents)… But even then, you have to pay another 99 cents to convert it to a useable ringtone!
So, OK… If I settle on a song that I really want for my ringtone (I haven’t yet), I’ll pay $1.98 for the privilege and not cry too hard over it.
Before I do so, though, my question: Is there any way around this nickel-diming? An iTunes tab I don’t know about? A third-party app of some sort? Anything?
Does that work for regular cellphones, not iPhones? I used to have a ringtone that I purchased for about $4, but I got a new phone and the ringtone didn’t migrate… and they’re now saying it’s $1 per month! That’s pretty annoying, so I’m wondering if there’s an alternate?
Apple released a new version of iTunes yesterday and one of the new features is a ringtone store, so that you can buy them directly, rather than having to convert an existing song to a ringtone.
No. It does NOT have an extension of “m4a.” It has no extension at all, just the name of the song. So there’s nothing to change to “m4r” in the next step. I tried just adding “.m4r” to the end of the title, but that didn’t do anything. I didn’t think it would. I’m stumped at this point.
Believe me, I’m not really that cheap. I’d happily pay 2 bucks to be done with this, but the ringtone I want is not available to purchase in iTunes. Plus, down the road I’d like to have a bunch to choose from, and that can add up. So any help getting this figured out will be appreciated.
I might be on to something. I did a file search by just typing “m4a”, and it found all my songs from iTunes.
So, OK, apparently they are m4a files. But I don’t actually see “m4a” anywhere, and I’m not finding any way to display the file extension, let alone change it. Maybe there’s a setting on my PC I need to change somewhere??
If there’s no extension appearing, Windows is probably set to hide extensions for known file types (the default setting). Are you using Windows XP? I think if you go to windows explorer, then Folder->options-> uncheck “hide extensions for known filetypes.”
That may not be the exact path, but I don’t have XP and can’t remember exactly of the top of my head.