Atlantic Records: digital music outselling CDs
Warner Music sub-label Atlantic Records today said it became the first major music company whose digital sales outpaced its conventional CDs. The group's sales of full songs, ringtones, and other content online now accounts for 51 percent of Atlantic's revenue. The label, which represents artists like Kid Rock and T.I., credits the change to spreading out where and how users can get music rather...
published on Wednesday, the 26. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
How-To: Create iPhone Ringtones in Garageband
If you own an iPhone and a Mac you can easily create ringtones within Garageband. I love music, but am not a music maker, so I don’t really use Garageband at all. Luckily, you don’t have to know much of anything about the program to easily create ringtones for your iPhone. Trust me. If I [...]
published on Thursday, the 30. October 2008, apple-blog
Fission 1.6 audio file editor saves iPhone ringtones
Rogue Amoeba has released the latest version of its audio file editing utility, Fission 1.6, which can now save iPhone ringtones. The program is claimed to offer lossless editing of MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, and AIFF files. The iPhone ringtones can be created from any audio file source supported by Quicktime. After the file is opened, it is cropped to the appropriate length, and then exported into...
published on Monday, the 27. October 2008, macintosh-news-network
Create Your Own Ringtones With YouTones iPhone Ringtone Creator
We’ve shown you ways to create ringtones for your iPhone using your Mac, but with the newly released YouTones ($4.99) application from FunMobility, you can now make them on your iPhone. YouTunes is already an established name in the ringtone industry, having previously been available for other handsets on most networks, including AT&T and [...]
published on Sunday, the 12. October 2008, apple-blog
Royalty rate stays same for iTunes, other download services
The Copyright Royalty Board has made its decision when it comes to the royalty rate for CDs and music downloads from places like iTunes: It will stay the same. The CRB also defined new terms for ringtone purchases and reaffirmed a decision from last week about royalty rates for subscription and streaming services. Read More...
published on Thursday, the 2. October 2008, ars-technica
RingtoneFeeder Plus offers ringtone archive access
RingtoneFeeder has announced that it will now offer access to its iPhone ringtone archive. The new service requires an existing annual subscription, and carries an activation fee of $10, which grants full access to all ringtones released by the company. Subscribers receive four ringtones every week: one vocal and one instrumental, plus alternates for each that include an embedded ringing sound....
published on Wednesday, the 24. September 2008, macintosh-news-network
iToner updated for iTunes 8; GarageBand still works too
If you like making custom ringtones for your iPhone, Ambrosia's iToner software has been updated with iTunes 8 compatibility. And if you're still into free and homebrew, the ol' GarageBand method still works too.Read More...
published on Wednesday, the 10. September 2008, ars-technica
ToneFXs juggles iPhone ringtones, system sounds
A developer called Efiko Software says it has released ToneFXs, a new app for jailbroken iPhones. The software attempts to diversify the sounds an iPhone uses for regular functions, primarily ringtones. Users can for instance choose to shuffle their ringtones, picking from a pool which can be chosen while an iPhone is on the go....
published on Tuesday, the 2. September 2008, macintosh-news-network
Forums: iPod rumors, iPhone ringtones, more
Forum roundup: Rumors about upgrades to the iPod lineup are a recent topic of interest in the MacNN forums where members seem to think that we will see new models by the end of the year. Advice on how to make ringtones for use with the iPhone 3G can be found in this thread started by jorgem4....
published on Friday, the 15. August 2008, macintosh-news-network
Create Ringtones for free with just iTunes
If you are paying Apple almost $2 for every ringtone on your iPhone, you might consider doing things a simpler way. And this method doesn't even involve opening up anything else besides iTunes. Read More...
published on Thursday, the 7. August 2008, ars-technica