Gizmodo: iPhone, Ringtone

7.4.2 iTunes Update Patches Some Ringtone Hacks

Brian Lam — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:06:41 EDT

iTunes 7.4.2 just came out, and its reported that it breaks some custom ringtone hacks. Apple's been open-minded about hardware changes, but anything infringing upon iTunes sales has been patched pretty aggressively in the past. Ringtones, too, it seems. The file renaming hack to cease working. Sendsong and manual copying of ringtones to the iPhone still seem to work as do a few of our older methods. [Macrumors] Updated: Custom Ringtone hacked once more.

Someone discovered yet another way to get...

Jason Chen — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:53:52 EDT

Someone discovered yet another way to get ringtones onto your iPhone for free. This time it involves a command line editor, some changing of metadata, and your regular songs will be come ringtones immediately. [Xanga via TUAW]

iPhone Ringtone Sounds Like Holy Angels Tinkling: Download it Here

Brian Lam — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:33:58 EST

One might remember that Steve Jobs took a call on the iPhone during the Keynote. Well there was a unique ringtone there. A ringtone of heavenly qualities in tone, rhythm, and key that Steve Jobs likely had composed by the eternally restless soul of Beethoven which he summoned with the ritual sacrifice of a Macbook (Beet is a Mac User, even as the Undead). We have it here for you.

Credit goes to an anonymous Gizmodo fan that took the time to extract the ringtone audio from the presentation, clean up the static and the sound of 1,000 fanboys wetting themselves, and send it on in for our loyal and awesome-tastic readers to load onto their plebeian handsets. We've got the skins, the papercraft model, and now we've got the ringtone. Franken-iPhone, here we come!–Brian Lam

Download here: iPhone Ringtone

UPDATE: I hope you've already downloaded the tone from the keynote, because the Big A has asked us to take it down (they asked nicely, if you're wondering.) That link now goes to the sheet music, which you can use to DIY. Email the remixes.

[Thanks Mystery Man]