Comments on: Free iPhone Ringtones

By: Roy Pembroke

Roy Pembroke — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:49:02 +0000

Thank you Gary. It’s obvious when you know how! And thank you for your podcasts; the instruction is most useful.

Regards

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:26:51 +0000

Did you look in the Ringtones section of your iTunes library? They will be there, not in the Music section. Try dragging them to your desktop first, then from the desktop to iTunes. Make sure you get the .m4r versions of the files, not the preview (mp3) versions.

By: Roy Pembroke

Roy Pembroke — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:11:51 +0000

I can drag individual ring tones from the site to my desktop but cannot drag them into iTunes. They simply don’t appear in the library. Is this a problem with OS 10.7 Lion or am I doing something wrong?

By: Dave Blake

Dave Blake — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:36:56 +0000

Hi Gary,
I have subscribed to the podcast and I can see the ringtones but it will not allow me to “get” any of them. The only thing I can get is the Just solitaire promo. Now it maybe that I don’t currently have an iPhone attached to my iTunes(PC) but I am upgrading to iPhone 4 next week so just trying to get prepaired. I was just wondering if you have any advice on this issue. Many thanks for your great quality content!!

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:59:00 +0000

I don’t know how you would sell them. I’m sure to sell them on iTunes you need to be affiliated with a major music label. You could always sell the .m4r as a downloaded file through a service, but it would be far from ideal. I’ve never seen anyone do that.

By: Maria Elisabeth MUSSENDEN

Maria Elisabeth MUSSENDEN — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:27:48 +0000

I have composed little ringtones for my I-Phone, using my keyboard, and the Ringtone-Pro application. I have downloaded it to my I-Phone. Can I sell my ringtones? How do I go about it? When people hear my phone ringing with my ringtones, they like them!

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:21:04 +0000

Just go to http://macmost.com/iphoneringtones/ and see. There are lots to choose from.

By: Taylor S.

Taylor S. — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:44:06 +0000

Gary: What kind of ringtones are there because i didnt neccessairly unserstand it.

By: Lexie C

Lexie C — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:11:27 +0000

Love my ringtones, and now my husband and daughter are hooked. But with three Iphones in the house we would love to be able to access different message tones. We have to have different settings to know who’s got a message and they are getting really old and boring !!

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:48:43 +0000

No. These directions are specific for the iPhone. But you can download the .mp3 versions of the files and use some other methods for getting the .mp3 files on to your Droid — I’m not sure what those methods are, you’d need to find a Droid site for that.

By: Sally

Sally — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:25:56 +0000

Will these directions work for my Motorola Droid? I really only want 2 or 3 of the ringtones. THANKS!

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:12:05 +0000

That is retarded….I just paid money to Itunes for a ringtone for the text message and spent hours trying to figure out how to make it work! Why are they selling test message ringtones if you can’t use them??? I got two ringtones from the Itunes store that said for Iphone and while they are in the Ipod section on my phone, I can’t make them work as a ringtone.

By: Breff

Breff — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:13:34 +0000

Thank you very much. Very straightforward!

By: Sonia Jwanouskos

Sonia Jwanouskos — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:45:59 +0000

This is worth every minute spent figuring it out! I finally did it!!1

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:18:26 +0000

So you mean you want to convert some .mp3 files you have to ringtones? You can do this. See episode 88: http://macmost.com/make-your-own-iphone-ringtones.html

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:38:32 +0000

Hi Gary I got your free ringtones Thank You :)
Can you please tell me how I can get free music ringtones or convert a song as a ringtone.. And I mean music from the top 100 the latest songs.

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:06:37 +0000

I think the info at the top of the page explains exactly that.

By: iphone ring tones

iphone ring tones — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:52:33 +0000

how to download iphone ringtones andhow to see it

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:07:02 +0000

Further to my recent request for help, I think I have found the answer!

It seems, for reasons I do not understand, that when you create the smart playlist as you instruct, a ringtones folder is created inside the iTunes music folder but this is not visible within iTunes and the smart playlist remains empty!

You can only see the ringtones folder if you go into the iTunes music folder using the Finder! Go: Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Ringtones. The folder is named “Ringtones” even though I called the smart playlist something different.

I do not understand any of this! However I now have the tones accessible on my iPhone even though the smart playlist is empty in iTunes. Note also that the new tones appear in a custom tones list ABOVE the standard tones list.

I hope this helps someone.
Roger

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:46:47 +0000

I am confused by your mixing instructions for the ringtone smartfolder option with instructions for the podcast option. Some users (like me) have gone to your website and downloaded individual tones as you suggest. These get automatically installed in a ringtones folder in the ITunes Library.

When we set up the smartfolder as you instruct, the tones do not get transferred to the smartfolder. In previous responses, you have said the solution is to get the tones into the music folder on the computer. I have tried dragging items from the ringtones folder into the music folder but it does not work.

Please clarify how tones can be transferred to the music folder.

Please clarify if it is possible to get individually-downloaded tones over to iPhones WITHOUT going down the podcast route at all.

If it is possible, I suggest you give separate instructions for each route and, in the case of individually-downloaded tones, you clearly explain how we get tones into the music library.

I think you are offering a great service which needs clearer instructions and I thank you for it.
Roger

By: rosenz

rosenz — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:30:52 +0000

Use one of the links at the top of this page to get step-by-step instructions.

By: caymen

caymen — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:49:47 +0000

i dont get it helpp

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:33:25 +0000

That is so annoying! I really want to be able to change my text tone!

Josh

By: rosenz

rosenz — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:32:59 +0000

Debs: Yes, it works for all iPhones.

By: Debs

Debs — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:14:01 +0000

Hi, I have followed it to the letter. Does it work for the 2G?

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:10:47 +0000

UPDATE:
Disregard the above post as I figured it out. :)

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:49:55 +0000

I did not read all the post/responses, too many. I missed how (simple way) to just sync the ones I want and NOT all ringtones.

By: rosenz

rosenz — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:14:58 +0000

dnevans: Sounds like you have it set to only transfer the latest episodes of the podcast, instead of ALL of the episodes.

By: dnevans

dnevans — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:06:31 +0000

I have had this downloaded, but I only have one showing on my phone. yes, all episodes are selected, but only one alternate ringtone is under sounds. I have also done both smart playlist as well as podcast instructions that you listed. please help me understand.

By: rosenz

rosenz — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:53:58 +0000

DS: Are you following the rest of the instructions like also syncing all episodes of the podcast? Or, alternatively putting the ringtones in a smart playlist and syncing that?