Comments on: Create Ringtones For Your iPhone Using Linux

By: vf04

vf04 — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 19:17:01 +0000

Edit: The new tone is sown up in the clock up but not for text messages etc.

By: vf04

vf04 — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 18:34:36 +0000

Thanks for this tutorial, works great for ringtones on my IPhone 4. Do you know any solution to deal with sounds for SMS/e-mail messages, alarm clock etc? Suggest that its quite similar, but I couldnt find the according xml files. I also had to create the RingTones folder, but no trouble @cl.

By: Amosnomor

Amosnomor — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:09:28 +0000

Verizon iPhone 4. I needed to create the iTunes_Control/Ringtones folder, which I did from the command line with mkdir. After which, the contact editor showed the new ringtone, but the calling the phone, it wasn’t being used. Rebooting the phone resolved this, and it picked up the next change without needing another reboot.

By: Hans Linkels

Hans Linkels — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 23:57:54 +0000

Thanks for the great instructions how to create the m4r file, edit the XML file and the locations where to find files.
However I was unable to mount the device using ifuse according to instructions provided on the linked page. But this was solved as I have a jailbreaked phone and could SSH into it. WIthout the instructions about where to put file and what to edit I would not have succeeded.
The ringtone could be selected immediately but before the ringtone was used when called I had to reboot the phone.

jlinkels

By: Michael Tunnell

Michael Tunnell — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:21:55 +0000

This is a very nice tutorial and thank you for doing this. I had someone ask me to make custom ringtones for their iphone and since I’m an androider I had no clue.

I do have a suggestion for making this process easier with a gui.

WinFF is a very handy GUI for ffmpeg and it allows you to add an mp3…select audio…choose MP4 audio…and then it transcode to m4v. using the ffmpeg command line without having to type it all in or use any .sh

Check it out and maybe add that as an option in the tutorial.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:26:03 +0000

Cheers Dude, works a treat.

When I get round to it I’ll write something to automate the provisioning of the file, I’ll post it back here when done.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Thu, 20 May 2010 08:10:24 +0000

I had to restart my phone to get these Ringtones fully working but these instructions worked out great! Thanks.

By: Lawrence D’Oliveiro

Lawrence D’Oliveiro — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:30:39 +0000

Do you really need all the ID3 stuff? Otherwise, you can convert any audio file to the right format using a single FFmpeg command, like this:

ffmpeg -i some_input_audio_file -acodec aac -f mp4 my_ring_tone.m4r

Note that by explicitly specifying the output format, you are free to use any output file extension you want.