RIngtone issues with iPhone 4 and iTunes 10?

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RIngtone issues with iPhone 4 and iTunes 10?

Hi, does anyone know if there are known issues with the iphone 4 and iTunes 10? I just bought an iphone 4, and upgraded to iTunes 10, then went to iTunes Store to buy a couple of ringtones. The thing is, is shows up in my ipod app on the iphone, but it doesn't show up as a ringtone. I tried dragging it into the iphone library, tried following the tutorials on changing .m4a to .m4r, but nothing works. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.

~Lisa

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8), iphone 4, itunes 10

Posted on Sep 7, 2010 10:10 AM

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chibilex Author

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Sep 7, 2010 10:11 AM in response to chibilex

Oh, and I did make sure I bought the ringtone version of the songs. It just shows up as a 30 second clip in the ipod app.

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roaminggnome

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Sep 7, 2010 10:13 AM in response to chibilex

You have to create the ringtone.

There are many ways to create free ringtones. Google will find them.

I use Garageband.

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chibilex Author

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Sep 7, 2010 11:22 AM in response to chibilex

Wait, so now instead of just buying the ringtone in iTunes, I have to create one myself? How does this even make sense? And why do I need to do this if I already BOUGHT the ringtone and it's sitting in my iTunes library?

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wjosten

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Sep 7, 2010 11:41 AM in response to chibilex

Because the artists who make the media want to be paid twice, once for buying their song(or portion thereof) and once again to use such as a ringtone. Apple has no control over this. If Apple wants to make the media available, well, it has no choice but to follow the royalty laws.

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Sep 7, 2010 12:02 PM in response to chibilex

You don't.....In your iTunes Library, check if it's marked as a ringtone. Then when you synch, make sure you synch your ringtones and it should appear in your phone's ringtone library. I believe the symbol is a little bell next to the ringtone.

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dnewcomb

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Sep 8, 2010 10:34 AM in response to lobsterghost1

I am having a similar problem. I can get the file to show up as a ringtone in iTunes and I have selected it to sync with my iPhone 4, but then it does not show up in the ringtone list on my iPhone after the sync.

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dnewcomb

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Sep 8, 2010 11:26 AM in response to dnewcomb

Nevermind, I got it to work. I was trying it on a DRM protected file. Doing it with a non-DRM protected file worked fine and it showed up in the "Custom" section of the Ringtone page.

If the ringtone file you purchased does not show up as a ringtone and you see it as a music file instead, you should be able to use a utility to strip the DRM info and then convert it into a ringtone (plenty of tutorials for doing this around the intertubes).

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