iTunes 7.4.2 hits, say goodbye to DIY iPhone ringtones (for a while)
By Nilay Patel 
posted Sep 17th 2007 6:56PM
posted Sep 17th 2007 6:56PM
Update: Well, that didn't take long. According to Shadowfax in the MacRumors forums, all you've got to do to get ringtones back is flip a metadata bit and change the file extension back to .m4r -- something MacRumors says is more indicative of Apple "solidifying the format" than actively trying to kill ringtones. We're also hearing iToner still works, although we've yet to confirm. Check the read link for Shadowfox's instructions.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
ok thats just scary
...and if the iPhone allowed MMS like any other multimedia phone that's worth a darn, you could just send yourself a ripped mp3, select 'save as ringtone', and boom - your own ringtone.
Face it. Any 'hack' that's brilliantly discovered by some poor shmuck after hours of tedious work fuelled only by red bull and doritos, Apple will come up with a block for in it's next firmware update. Sooner or later, you idiots will brick the stupid thing.
*continues to point* I will never regret NOT having one of those enormous wastes of money.
Ringtones are overated IMO, I have a E62 and can use a whole damn song if I wanted to as a ringtone, but unfortunately I'm stuck in this damn call center for 11hours a day and have to keep my phone on silent, so those songs I've loaded get no use.
And once I leave this god forsaken place for my days off I dont even change the sound settings on my phone because I'm so used to it being on vibrate. Thats just my opinon at least.
If they really wanted to stop people from doing it then they wouldn't make it so easy for people to bypass their "attempts" at blocking hacks.
MacRumors is reporting the "fix" doesn't in fact work.
http://www.macrumors.com/2007/09/17/apple-updates-itunes-to-7-4-2/