A Great iDea - Ringtone Podcasts

Posted by iphonefan

March 24, 2008 |

I am not a fan of the Teen-Buzz ringtone; I shouldn’t be, I am an adult. But the people who run the Teenbuzz blog have stumbled onto a brilliant idea. They have created a Podcast that delivers ring tones to your iPhone.

The idea is brilliantly simple. They simply encoded the sound files as .m4a, renamed them to .m4r. They then encapsulated the files in XML as per the iTunes standards. Users can then subscribe to the ring tone feed and download the ring tones directly to the iPhone.

They have detailed instructions and examples here. It is amazing how simple this is, and it is amazing that it works. Well, more specifically, it is amazing that Apple has allowed it to work.

Try this out. If anyone stumbles onto any other ring tone feeds, let me know. I would love to try it out with other ring tone options.

EDIT:

Here are a couple of other ring tone podcast sites:
http://nakko.com and http://www.freeiphonerings.com/?feed=podcast

I am not vouching for these sites, I just found them.  Check them out before you sign anything.


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  1. A Great iDea - Ringtone Podcasts | Gearfire.com on March 24, 2008 6:13 pm

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  2. A Great iDea - Ringtone Podcasts | Uncategorized | Information about the iPhone on March 24, 2008 6:21 pm

    […] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThey have created a Podcast that delivers ring tones to your iPhone. The idea is brilliantly simple. They simply encoded the sound files as .m4a, renamed them to .m4r. They then encapsulated the files in XML as per the iTunes standards. … […]

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