Today’s iPhone hack-du-jour uses iTunes preview files for ringtones. As you probably know, iTunes freely offers short audio samples of its entire library. You can easily download these samples from iTunes and install them onto your iPhone as custom ringtones. Since your iPhone is authorized to your detail, you’ll be able to play back these otherwise protected audio snippets as ringtones. Here are the steps to take to compose that work for you:
1. Create a new playlist. Drag unpurchased songs from the iTunes store into your playlist. The songs will retain their “Add Song” buttons and their price within the playlist.
2. Export your playlist. choose the playlist in the sources column. Control-click/Right-click the playlist name and choose Export Song List from the pop-up menu.
3. Save the playlist as plain text. choose Plain Text from the Format pop-up and save the playlist file to your desktop.
4. Open the playlist file. It is a tab-delimited file of columns, so you can open it up in Excel (my preference, construct certain to option-drag the text file onto the Excel icon) or a text editor like TextEdit.
5. Locate the file URLs. Each file URL appears in the final Location column for each line. Copy the URL.
6. Download
7. Rename. Give the file a more meaningful name than, for example, “mzi.rwgtaash.aac.p.m4p”. Retain the .m4p extension.
8. Upload to the iPhone. Use your favorite method (iphoneinterface, sshfs, sftp, whatever) to copy the file to /Library/Ringtones on your iPhone.
9. choose the ringtone. On the iPhone, navigate to Settings -> Sound > Ringtone and choose the new file. The iPhone ringtone will play back as you choose it. Please note that some newer releases (including Nicole Scherzinger’s Whatever U Like–thanks Drunk Dwarf) do not work as ringtones. I’m not certain why.
Congratulations, not only have you added a new 30-second custom ringtone to your iPhone, but iTunes usually picks the best 30 seconds of any song for its preview. Enjoy.
GeekNote: whether you’ve got curl installed on your iPhone, you can curl the URLs directly to /Library/Ringtones.
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