A friend recently sent me a news item about mSpot launching a browser-based ringtone creator, and it reminded me that GarageBand also lets you create ringtones for your iPhone. It used to be if you tried to drag a DRM song purchased from iTunes, GarageBand won't let you use it.
But now, since all the music on iTunes are becoming DRM free, you should be able to create your own ringtones with GarageBand with your purchased music that are DRM free. Making ringtones with GarageBand is not an one click thing on GarageBand, but it's definitely easy. They already faded out the track for you, and all you need is to simply determine which section of the song you want for the ringtone. And click on send ringtone to iTunes, and you're done.
So, you could spend $0.99 for Apple to prepare the ringtone for you in iTunes, or you can save $0.99 by using their wonderful software GarageBand to do it. There is probably some legal clause in their terms that says you can't legally and you shouldn't. If that was really true, that stinks because you bought the music, and shouldn't you have the right to listen to it on any device (i.e., your iPhone) and in any way you like (i.e., just the hook) without having to pay more?
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