{"id":8211,"date":"2016-06-07T23:17:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T06:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=8211"},"modified":"2016-06-02T23:18:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T06:18:10","slug":"iphones-irking-ringtone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2016\/06\/iphones-irking-ringtone\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone’s Irking Ringtone"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Like you, I got used to having my personalized ringtones. Also like you, I don’t want to pay for them. I have a large collections of songs and I don’t want to pay for a snippet of things that I already own.<\/p>\n

On Android phones, that I have used for all these years, the process is easy. Find a way to slice the MP3 to the part I want, save it as a new MP3 file, and select it as the ringtone. The slicing took time, since I need to listen to the song multiple times to choose the exact segment.<\/p>\n

Then, not completely voluntarily, I switched to iPhone. Not that I am a novice to iOS devices; I had many. I just never used iPhones. The switch over was uneventful. Transferring various data from Android to iPhone was cumbersome yet not technically challenging. iCloud was a necessity.<\/p>\n

The ringtones stumped me.<\/p>\n

After slicing the MP3 segment to less than 30 seconds, I needed to convert the song to AAC, rename the to M4R, move it out of iTunes (!!), play the file from Finder (by iTunes, which will now know there is a new ringtone), then sync my iPhone. After all that, the ringtone will magically appear from the selection. Oh, I have yet figured out a way to remove the ringtones that I accidentally created.<\/p>\n

Seriously!?!?<\/p>\n

There is an easy way. I could have hack into the iPhone and drop the sliced MP3 into the tones folder. Oh, you did not think this is easier?<\/p>\n

Apple. Com’on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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