I Forgot My Mantra is Scott Jackson's webtumblespacelog.

iPhone Ringtones From The Terminal

I wrote a shell script that makes audio files into ringtones for your iPhone. It works on Macs running Leopard or higher, and you can find it here. To find out how to use it, just cd to the directory you put the shell script in and type

./iprc.sh -help

to get started. That’ll tell you how to use it. An example (and the whole reason I made the script) would be:

$ ./iprc.sh ~/Desktop/gb_sound.mp3 ~/Desktop/ringtone

Once you execute that command, there’s a file called “ringtone.m4r” sitting on your desktop. Awesome, right? Yeah, you know it.

Sure, you could just use Rogue Amoeba’s awesome free MakeiPhoneRingtone app to do the same thing, but I wanted to be all Mr. Neckbeard and see if I could do it from the shell.

Because that’s how I roll.