The Kolonel's Journal

Good news, everyone! Mojotones 2.0 now easily creates iPhone ringtones. While it was possible with previous versions, this new release makes it easier than ever. Find your track, set the range and click the button. That creates the ringtone and adds it to iTunes, ready for your next sync.

There are a lot of under–the–hood changes too, slimming the application a bit down while adding features and fixing a few bugs. I also changed and rearranged some of the menu items, and changed the short–cuts for the ringtone creation items under the File menu (I couldn’t think of another easy–to–type modification of ⌘S). There’s also a new Select Search Field item under the Control menu to put the keyboard focus in the search box at the bottom of the window, saving a bit of mousing. Finally, since iPhone ringtones are limited in length, the range duration is now displayed in the player.

If there’s anything you want to see added, changed or fixed, you can always choose the Send Feedback Message item under the Help menu or just click here.

P.S. In case anyone is wondering, my main ringtone is the opening tintinnabulation of YYZ, by Rush.

With all the recent hubbub, I’ve gotten a few questions about Mojotones and iPhone ringtones. The short answer, is that, Mojotones doesn’t directly support them. However, I’ve helped a customer find a workaround. First, set your Mojotones preferences to use AAC as the export format. Then, find the track you want, set your desired range, and choose Save Track As… from under the File menu to save the ringtone to your Desktop. Finally use one of the free utilities that have been released lately to convert it into an iPhone ringtone (here is news about one I read just today — just make sure your iPhone is plugged in when you use it).I’d like to build more direct iPhone support into a future release, but it’ll have to wait until I can get one here in Canada.

Update: Mojotones 2.0 easily creates iPhone ringtones. Read about it here.