Kee Hinckley
Wed Nov 21 10:15:26 2007

But wait.  I thought the 40 second restriction was only for ringtones?  Do alarms have the same limit?  I could care less about ringtones, but this is the first iPod I've ever had that doesn't let me wake up to music.

Ben
Wed Nov 28 18:40:36 2007

Thanks guys. I bought Fission especially for making my own ringtones and was disappointed to see your uploader was broken. You guys are the best. Fission is an awesome utility!

iClems
Fri Nov 30 17:00:35 2007

Are you working on AirTunes for iPhone ??? It would be soooo great..........

filmlover 99
Wed Dec 5 14:33:41 2007

For lack of another place to put this, I will put it here. You guys seem the most perfectly aligned to make an application to work with the iphone, it is right up your alley!

So hear is an iPhone app idea I certainly wished existed.

Something that almost seems like a slight oversight on the iPhone 
presents an intersting string of possibilities.

The iPhone is first and foremost pointed at people who love their iPod 
and music so much they want those functions on their phone. And many 
have probably realized that you can actually turn on and listen to 
your iPod music WHILE you are simultaneously connected on the phone.

That's pretty darn cool but seems like an oversight because you can 
not "mix" the volume level between the two to a point where the iPod 
audio output would function as background music, or perhaps 
intentionally mix your music over the phones audio output because you 
are on a long hold.

As well, your party on the other end cannot hear what you are playing.

Basicly the volume just takes everything your hearing up ur down, 
usually completely overwhelming the phone call.

(iPhone application idea coming now)

So an "imix-hijack" iPhone app would:
Allow you to mix the level of your iPod  output and iphone output to 
tweak a perfect mix of the two sources.

This tweak mixing could also apply to music while playing games as well.

Perhaps with earbuds on, the handset mic could be a directional audio 
source to mix in the local  sounds, like someone next to you trying to 
get you to hear them. If you could mix them up, you wouldn't have to 
grab your buds out of your ears all the time.

The next great feature of an iPhone-imix hijack would be to share the 
music listening with your incoming callers.

Now I realize that first the Walkman and then the iPod made a big part 
of music an "I"ndependent listening experience, but for the most part, 
teenagers, college students, music lovers and professionals, are 
really about listening with someone else.

Who with an iPhone would not like to have the option of saying "Hey-
listen to this" and be able to listen to the current playing audio 
together.

Next in this suite of audio mix operations: hold music! With the 3way 
conferencing and call waiting features so gracefully implemented in 
the iphone as call adding and merging, callers are being put on hold 
all the time.

How about the current playing song is the hold music while waiting for 
a caller to come back from a call waiting, or during an outgoing add a 
call. That's how a landline conference call would work.

Finally a setting that would either allow mixed music to play through 
the answer of a call or not, in case it's your boss, a client, or your 
inlaws.

Ok- so this stuff may seem frivolous, but music is entertainment. When 
your friends come over you put some music on, and enjoy it together.

Many workplaces have music playing all day, and thousands of iPod 
owners everyday wear their earbuds and speak to people while listening 
to music the other party doesn't hear.

Just to review:

Level mix multiple audio sources such as phone and iPod simultaneously.

Allow music to play over outgoing phone call to share a listening 
experience.

Be able to turn that feature on or off.

Mix up handset mic to hear the world.

Have hold music!

This idea keeps popping into my head, and I really needed to tell 
someone who might be able to do something with it.

Susannah
Wed Dec 5 14:38:47 2007

Only had my iPhone for 4 days and this is what I came up with to make this whole ringtone creation easier...simple and works great with my PC...
I Phone Custom Ringtones

1. Download the following WavePad audio editor
http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/masters.html

2. Run it and be sure to install the “Switch Audio File Converter”

3. Install the download

4. In the WavePad program open up the song you want to make into a ringtone

5. Use your mouse on the music graphics to highlight what you want as a ringtone

6. Try to keep it at 30 seconds or less (right hand bottom corner you will see a counter on time and when you select something how long the selction is)

7. Go to Edit and select  “Copy Selection”

8. Go to File and select “New File”

9. When the new file open us, put your mouse pointer in it, right  click and select “Paste”

10. Go to File and select “Save As”

11. Pick your saving location, type in your name AND select the file type as .m4a file

12. Click OK & repeat as often as you want for the new ringtones.... NEXT STEPS

13. Find the files you just made for your ringtones

14. Right Click on the file name, and at the end of the file name (the file extension) delete the “a” and type in an “r”

15. Once you have done all of that, connect your iPhone with iTunes, find the ringtones with the .m4r extensions and double click on each one, they will be sent to your Ringtones tab in iTunes.

16. Sync your iPhone, you will find the ringtones at the top of the page in the Settings, Sounds folder

NOT DONE YET.... DO NOT CHANGE YOUR DEFAULT RINGTONE TO A CUSTOM RINGTONE!!!  If you do this then no matter what custom ringtone you assign to your contacts it will only ring on the default ringtone annoying as hell....

Confused, so was I for about 30 minutes....

Set your default ringtone to one of the ones that came on the iPhone, then go to the contacts, set a custom ringtone for anyone who is special enough for it....

Now that was easy!!

Fazal Majid
Wed Dec 5 15:26:17 2007

Thanks for the tool. This blog post is what got me to stop procrastinating about buying Fission (and Audio Hijack Pro as well), so there is some business benefit to blogging after all...

Paul
Fri Dec 7 12:53:56 2007

Problem:  Failed to copy to my iTunes Library.  I moved my library to a firewire drive, which gets mounted as "/Volumes/Photos & Music Backup"  or more accurately  "/Volumes/Photos\ &\ Music\ Backup"

  While I have lots of unix experience, and never liked putting blanks and special characters into file names, the Mac has spoiled me and made me lazy.  I think that the escaping of the iTunes Library path is not working correctly.

I have my own solution, but I thought you might want to know.