iPhone Problem Forum

innerSpaceman · 08-19-2009, 04:06 PM

So I'm reading the 213-page User Guide for my new iPhone. It seems to me the thing in my hand is more powerful and functional than the spacecraft that traveled to the moon.

And yet ... I cannot download my own ringtones to the device who's central function is, by virtue of its name, a [/i]phone[/i]. This is not a technical limitation of course, but a copyright issue, I suppose. Yet I cannot tell you how annoyed I am that I can practically perform heart surgery with this thing, yet I cannot use my custom ringtones (most of which, by the way, cannot be purchased on iTunes - which is the only authorized way to add a ringtone to the iPhone). Bah.

From what I understand, the iPhone uses an odd sound format for its ringtones. Does anyone know of a hack that will allow me to get from a standard sound format to their weird sound format and upload it to the iPhone as a ringtone?

In return, I will gladly remove your gallbladder with my iPhone when you need that procedure performed.

08-19-2009, 04:06 PM	#1
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	So I'm reading the 213-page User Guide for my new iPhone. It seems to me the thing in my hand is more powerful and functional than the spacecraft that traveled to the moon. And yet ... I cannot download my own ringtones to the device who's central function is, by virtue of its name, a [/i]phone[/i]. This is not a technical limitation of course, but a copyright issue, I suppose. Yet I cannot tell you how annoyed I am that I can practically perform heart surgery with this thing, yet I cannot use my custom ringtones (most of which, by the way, cannot be purchased on iTunes - which is the only authorized way to add a ringtone to the iPhone). Bah. From what I understand, the iPhone uses an odd sound format for its ringtones. Does anyone know of a hack that will allow me to get from a standard sound format to their weird sound format and upload it to the iPhone as a ringtone? In return, I will gladly remove your gallbladder with my iPhone when you need that procedure performed.
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