Convert audio to ringtones using OS X Terminal ift.tt/1nHkCvh Have you encountered a sound bite, or perhaps a full song, that you would like to use as an alert or ringtone on your iPhone? If so, then you can do so using a simple utility available in the OS X Terminal to convert into a tone for your iOS device. The utility is called afconvert, which stands for Audio File Convert and is a tool that Apple has included in OS X since 2003. As its name suggests, this tool allows you to specify one audio file and convert it to another format, managing bitrates and quality settings, extract channels, and perform a number of other manipulations to audio files. For a full list of options you can run afconvert -h in the Terminal, or run afconvert -hf to view a list of the audio file formats supported by this utility. One of these is the m4r (MPeg-4 Ringtone) format, which is the format that can be used as a ringtone. Now with your desired audio file on hand, cropped and otherwise prepared, open the OS X Terminal application (in the Applications > Utilities folder) and perform the following steps: Type the following command, followed by a single space (do not press Enter yet): afconvert -f m4af Drag the audio file from its location in Finder to Terminal, and you should see a full path to the file appear. Now drag the file to Terminal again to enter another full path to it, but this time press delete to remove the... [Read more]
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 20:36:53 +0000
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