Free Ringtones for your iPhone

[Osiris]

Paying $0.99 for a single Ringtone is way to much especially if you already bought the song from iTunes or have it available on CD or as mp3.The funny thing is that Apple introduced a new format for ringtones with the extension .m4r which is simply a renamed .aac file which are the files that you download when you make a purchase at iTunes.
If you already have the .aac file on your hard drive you simply need to rename it to .m4r and add it to your iTunes library. It can't be easier than that, don't you think ? The method to create ringtones for your iPhone changes a bit when you have files in a different format on your hard drive.
The most used formats are mp3 and ogg. What you need to do is to convert them into .aac format and rename them to .m4r again. A software that is able to convert almost every audio format is DBPoweramp. Just run the software and convert your music, or the songs that you would like to have as ringtones.
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Apple Update Blocks Free Ringtones

Remember the free ringtone workaround we posted last week? Well, an Apple update supposedly blocked the hack but a new one has already surfaced.

Apple has released an update to iTunes that blocks users from creating free custom ringtones and then syncing them to an iPhone. Despite Apple's best efforts to thwart users, a workaround has already been found and posted to the Internet.
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