RSSiTunes Chugs Along, Adds Ringtone Capabilities
By the Betanews Staff | Published September 5, 2007, 1:17 PM
iTunes continues to chug along at full speed, with the service now number one in all 22 countries that it operates in, CEO Steve Jobs said at a press event on Wednesday. All of the stores include six million tracks in their libraries, and customers have bought more than 3 billion songs. With over 600 million downloads sold via iTunes, the volume of songs downloaded has been enough to propel it to the third largest music store in the US.
Wednesday brings a new version of the popular software, and Apple's first entry into the lucrative ringtone business. 500,000 songs will be available as ringtowns initially and Apple would charge 99 cents to create one from a song. The user would have control of what 30-second segment of the song would be used. At this time, it only appears that the ringtones would be compatible with Apple's iPhone.
Well its 12:22am and Apple failed to deliver iTunes 7.4. Guess it was an off the cuff comment that it would be released Wed night.
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|It's about time there was an "official" way to add custom ringtones to the iPhone. I have a coworker that will be thrilled to hear that. Too bad it's not free...
99 cents for the whole song, or 99 cents for a 30-second clip. *sigh* What's the world coming to?
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|It's called paying for convenience. You don't need to know any special software to do it yourself, You just select the 30 seconds and bam you got your ring tone. Most of us who know how to do it, will probably take our current software and do it. Those who don't know how will simply buy it.
I mean come on, who would own a car when you can walk their for FREE. sigh
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|99 cents for an audio ringtone is um.. cheap.
TMUS charges me $2.49 for 15-seconds...
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|Thanks auiotour and Ed. I suppose I never really stopped to think about that before, as I've never purchased ringtones for my phone, and I never really had a base reference for price. I've always converted them myself. You mention valid points though.
$2.49? Good grief...
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|Yeah and I got suckered into a ringtone from Best Buy that was FOUR seconds and 2.49. you reminded me about wanting to demand a refund, thanks :)
I like the fact that you pick what part of the song you want, that is nice. But only iPhone? boo.
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