[Michael Johnston]

One of the most common complaints about the iPhone is how quiet the ringer is. Most, including myself, have blamed this on iPhone's tiny speakers. As it turns out, the culprit is the audio itself and not the speaker it plays on. Granted, tiny speakers aren't good for playing loud, low-frequency audio, but that's not the point. It's always a good idea to use loud, high-frequency audio as a ringtone. Where do you find such an amazing piece of audio? Amazingly enough, most of don't even realize that we have it living on our Macs this very moment.

I discovered this when I went looking for a ringtone that was a simple "ring". No marimbas, no crickets. Just a plain old ring. During my quest, I came across a message board that referred to GarageBand possessing just what I was looking for. After searching through the app, I came across exactly what I wanted - a simple "ring".

The sound, called "Cell Phone Ringing, comes courtesy of GarageBand's royalty-free audio loops. The file is located fairly deep within a myriad hierarchies at:

/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple/iLife Sound Effects/Work - Home/Cell Phone Ringing.aif

The iPhone doesn't like raw AIF audio, so the next step is to convert that sound into something it does play. Both AACs and MP3s should work fine, but I like using AAC. iTunes is my application of choice for this task. Add the file to your library, right (or control) click the filel and select "Convert Selection to AAC". If you don't see this option, you need to select "AAC Encoder" from Preferences>Advanced>Importing. Once you have your AAC file, upload it to the /Library/Ringtones folder on your iPhone using iFuntastic (or another method).

Now, I hadn't set out to find a magically easy to hear ringtone, but that's exactly what this file turned out to be. You wouldn't believe how well you can hear it.

If you've been struggling to hear your iPhone ring, give this one a try. You'll be pleasantly surprised.

[iph0n3]

does anyone have one of those "high pitched" "high frequency ringtones" that supposidly 25 years and under are only supposed to hear?

[Hans]

you can use those and just convert to AAC (for those who are like me and never use iTunes)
or this site has some normal cell ringers
http://www.hoehne-design.com/ringtones/

[Hans]

oh and those ringers get insanely loud...you werent kidding about waking the neighbors

[iPhoneWriter]

Originally Posted by Hans

you can use those and just convert to AAC (for those who are like me and never use iTunes)
or this site has some normal cell ringers
http://www.hoehne-design.com/ringtones/

Thanks for sharing these!

[Spoon]

Originally Posted by iph0n3

does anyone have one of those "high pitched" "high frequency ringtones" that supposidly 25 years and under are only supposed to hear?

You can make that sort of tone using Audacity. Go to Generate>Tone and do something like 17000Hz. Play with that a bit and see what works best for you. When you're done, export it to WAV and convert to something like m4a

[Hans]

if i can find the cable to connect my razr to my computer i will post all those ringers and the ones off my wife's blackberry too

when i go to apple loops theres no apple folder just "user loops"???

[Pepper]

i have a pack of loops that i got about a month ago, i'll upload them to rapidshare when i get a chance.

[Spoon]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

when i go to apple loops theres no apple folder just "user loops"???

You need to have GarageBand '06 and the GarageBand loops installed.

[Pepper]

hers some sound files...

http://nepis.net/audio/Frogs/

[Hans]

very woodsy

Originally Posted by Hans

you can use those and just convert to AAC (for those who are like me and never use iTunes)
or this site has some normal cell ringers
http://www.hoehne-design.com/ringtones/

So how can I xfer some of these to my iPhone?

I would love to have a louder ring tone

[Hans]

it is explained several times in the forum, in the cyberduck thread for one

We have a bunch of ringtones for the iPhone which might help you wake your neighbors.. and or even yourself.

ThemeMyPhone iPhone Ringtones

[drrick]

I have found that the very same music ringtones I used on my Razr phone, are not loud enough on the iPhone. To my ear they sound half as loud. My solution was simply to bring them into an audio editor (Audacity, Amadeus, Sound Studio, etc), and up the decibels by 6-12, depending on the ringtone. I was able to listen to it within the program to make sure I wasn't at the distortion point.

Now I can hear my ring tones without a problem on the iPhone.

(Also in general I make my ringtone songs with the following recipe:
Mixdown to mono
resample at 22khz (taking it down from 44)
encode as mp3 at 32 - 64 kpbs. Really it's hard to hear a difference on the puny speaker of a phone. This recipe usually produces a 25 second ring tone song that takes up only 90-130K.

I am so happy to have found this link, since I miss every other call....and the vibrate feature doesn't exactly make me tingle, either.

But....

You say: "Once you have your AAC file, upload it to the /Library/Ringtones folder on your iPhone using iFuntastic (or another method)."

Okay, did everything and downloaded iFuntastic....but I really don't want to go through Hitting "Restore" when it seems like there's another way to just get the ringtones on the phone. Is there?

It would be so nice to be able to answer the phone, it works so well otherwise.

[Spoon]

Originally Posted by James Blond

I am so happy to have found this link, since I miss every other call....and the vibrate feature doesn't exactly make me tingle, either.

But....

You say: "Once you have your AAC file, upload it to the /Library/Ringtones folder on your iPhone using iFuntastic (or another method)."

Okay, did everything and downloaded iFuntastic....but I really don't want to go through Hitting "Restore" when it seems like there's another way to just get the ringtones on the phone. Is there?

It would be so nice to be able to answer the phone, it works so well otherwise.

Use iTunes to upload the ringer to your iPhone: http://www.iphonealley.com/tips-and-...-as-a-ringtone

I see the cell phone ringing in the music file and have coverted to acc... it made a new file in the music but when i try to drag to the ringtone area does not move...?