Why do I have to re-buy songs that i have as Ringtones?
I don't understand why we have to re-buy songs to make them into RIngtones. This seems really lame and feels like i am being ripped-off. If i already own a song (purchased from iTunes), shouldn't i be able to use that as a ringtone if i like.
What's up with this?
Is there any way around that?
If you already own a song and it is able to become a ringtone you pay .99 to make it into one. Most ringtones purchased through cingular or at&t cost 2.99 (sometimes more) so this isn't such a bad deal. You can choose which part of the song you want as the ringtone (unfortunantly the gain is wrong on all itunes ringtones) and I wish I could make songs which I own on CD (and are unavailable from itunes) into ringers as well like I could on my old sony phone (Irish Catholic Boy by Seanchai) which isn't even on a label.. and defiently wouldn't care if I used his song as a ringer
mmiller1601 wrote:
I don't understand why we have to re-buy songs to make them into RIngtones. This seems really lame and feels like i am being ripped-off. If i already own a song (purchased from iTunes), shouldn't i be able to use that as a ringtone if i like.
What's up with this?
Is there any way around that?
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