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Ok, so we know how to use your own ripped CD’s as ringtones on your iPhone but here is an updated way to download and use iTS previews with your iPhone – AKA FREE RINGTONES of your favorite songs.

Now, this isn’t for the feint of heart. It requires command-line access and Perl and only works on OS X.

• You’ll need to download the software: Fetchalbum and DumpURLS. Fetchalbum can also be compiled from source here and dumpurls is simply a text file, which you can read through. Make both fetchalbum and dumpurls executable. Place both items in the same folder. Dumpurls calls fetchalbum.
• Find an album URL: In the iTunes store, right-click (control-click) on the name of the album in the area above the song listings and choose Copy iTunes Store URL from the pop-up. Do not do this on individual songs; this will only on Albums.
• Run dumpurls: Run dumpurls with one argument, the single-quoted URL from the itunes store. For example:
  ./dumpurls 'http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=259019334&s=143441'
• Now wait: It might take a few minutes or two to download the previews associated with the album.
• Load into iTunes: Thanks to Apple you can’t simply rename the file as a .m4r, so just name it anything you can find and add it to your iTunes library.
• Sync the newly created to your iPhone.
• Use SendSong (Which can be found here) to install your preview into ~/Library/Ringtones on your iPhone.

It’s not easy, but its the only way to create absolutely free ringtones.