iTunes 7.4 kills iToner ringtones
2007-09-06 11:55:00 view : 163
If, like me, you watched yesterday's Apple presentation and, when Steve Jobs announced custom ringtones from the iTunes Store, thought "Interesting, but I'll continue to use Ambrosia Software's $15 iToner to create my own" you're in for a rude surprise when you next sync your iPhone with iTunes 7.4. Why? After doing so, custom ringtones apparently disappear from the phone. Before breaking out the pitchforks and torches, please understand that this appears to be an unwelcome side-effect of the way iTunes goes about its business rather than an attempt to target iToner or other methods for installing custom ringtones. I suggest this because, after the sync, the ringtones remain on the iPhone. If you have Terminal/sftp access to your phone because you're hacked it, you'll find them here: /private/var/root/Media/iTunes_Control/Ringtones What appears to happen is that as iTunes syncs it accesses an index of its "approved" ringtones (this index would include the stock ringtones as well as any you've purchased from the iTunes Store) and makes sure that the ringtones on that list appear on the iPhone after the sync. Any ringtones that aren't part of the index are ignored rather than erased from the phone. For now, the workaround is to sync the iPhone, fire up iToner, and reinstall your custom ringtones. After doing so, your iToner ringtones will be back in place. My very best guess is that Ambrosia is already hard at work on the problem and will make an updated version of iToner available in the near future. Copyright Mac Publishing LLC. This RSS feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you're not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you're looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact webmaster@macworld.com so we can take legal action immediately.
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