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iTunes Ringtones tab will allow custom ringtones for your Apple iPhone!

Categories: Apple, AT&T, iPhone
By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 at 3:36 PM

iTunes confirmed to have ringtone tabMacrumors is reporting that the iPhone-required iTunes 7.3 software has been spotted with a “Ringtone” tab! The “ringtone” tab was first sighted at hte Macworld announcement of the Apple iPhone. Furthermore, the new version of iTunes has been listed as an iPhone requirement but is still not released.

The speculation goes something like this: iTunes will take any song available on iTunes and convert it into a custom ringtone for your Apple iPhone. The service will run you $0.99, and it’s not clear whether you will have to download new songs for this feature, or if you can use songs you currently own in your iTunes library or on a CD.

You can create your custom ringtone through a “Garageband-like” interface – allowing you to choose what 30-second section you want to use as your ringtone.

The Apple Q&A list also shows a picture of the iTunes software with 8 tabs (as opposed to the 6 we’ve seen in the video). We won’t be able to use MP3′s as ringtones outright, but at least we’ll be able to make custom ringtones from our MP3′s! (and we’re not at all surprised by the very Apple-like move to charge a buck for each ringtone)

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  • JonnyBruha

    “And all the fanboys rejoiced”

    So, you buy a song for $0.99, and if you want to cut that song down to 15% of what it originally was, it’ll cost you ANOTHER $0.99?

    Does the average cell phone consumer really not know what Audacity is? Were they really paying $1.99 for ringtones this whole time? This must come as the deal of the century for them.

  • Will Park

    It’s a great feature. Too bad we have to pay for it. I would rather hackup my own file and sideload it onto my phone. Been doing that for the better part of a decade, and now I’m going to be forced to pay Apple for the “convenience.”

    Still, at a buck, it doesn’t hurt too bad.

  • brandon

    did not work for me… kept saying connection refused. i have a secured wireless network, does that make a difference?

  • emj

    i made the ringtone, but when it came time to enter the finished ringtone into the left pan under library it would accept my ringtone!! whyy!?!