Custom Ringtone Sound Quality

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Level 1

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Custom Ringtone Sound Quality

I just got my iphone a couple of days ago, and I love having ringtones!

I read that you would have to spend money on itunes to buy a song and create a ringtone, but as a poor college student I tried to find ways to create my own custom ringtones and sync them to my iphone.

Fortunately I have found a very easy and simple way of creating custom ringtones, and in fact it works!

However, the sound quality of the ringtones coming out through the speakers is not very good. (especially the bass - i like a lot of rap and r&B)

Is there any way to fix this?

(of course when I receive a call through my headphones, the quality is fine)

Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Mar 18, 2008 8:59 AM

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Answer 1

Mar 18, 2008 9:14 AM in response to Josh.Ho

Josh.Ho wrote:
However, the sound quality of the ringtones coming out through the speakers is not very good. (especially the bass - i like a lot of rap and r&B)

there's only one speaker (not two).... have you ever heard bass sound good through a single tiny speaker?

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Answer 2

DaVBMan

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Mar 18, 2008 9:16 AM in response to Josh.Ho

Congrats on finding out how to make your own (I do as well and I know a lot of people do).

As for sound quality of speaker. Well you sort of have to remember, the speaker on the phone isn't meant for music playback. It is there for the phone. It is designed for voice levels and pitches. Not for musical playback. While yes one can play music through it (or musical ringtones), the quality will suffer. The musical side of the phone (iPod) is meant to be listened to via headphones or attached external speaker system (like every other iPod).

So in the end, not much you can do to make it sound better.

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