![]() To be fair, the iTunes Store also has a lot of perfectly timed clips that are great for text alerts, really short snippets of dialog from characters on The Simpsons, Family Guy, Sherlock, Star Wars, Star Trek, Minions, and more. This is, essentially, a store where Apple can sell re-packaged music, cut down to 30 or 40 seconds, and formatted to instantly become your latest ringtone or text tone for $1.29 or $0.99, respectively. In the iTunes app, click the More button and then Tones. ![]() Itunes appFor iPhone, the absolute easiest way to get ringtones (beyond the standard bunch that come with iOS) is to purchase them on your iPhone, using the built-in iTunes Store app (not to be confused with the App Store app for buying apps, or the Apple Store app for buying hardware). But Apple still makes it ridiculously hard for the layman to create them. I had to get those separately.īy 2010, the ringtone market was falling out, and it never really recovered. I remember trying an early phone/MP3 player hybrid in the year 2000 (the Napster days) that held about 25 songs, but I couldn't use a single song as a ringtone. Songs that would play as phone calls came in on your not-so-smartphones cost about $5 to $9, though you couldn't even really play the whole song for fun, depending on your handset. There was a time, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when ringtones were big, big business.
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