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Summary: A nice job
Review: About the only thing bad I can say about Toast Titanium is that the update process from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X was organized somewhat poorly -- a number of different updates, with unclear information about what was included in what update. But witha little work, it was easy enough to update, and now everything works pretty much as advertised. It makes the superdrive more accesible than it would be otherwise, and enhances the value of my computer by more than the purchase price of the software. A good purchase for anyone who wants to get more out of the superdrive.
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Summary: May be preferable to Toast 6
Review: Apple's iTunes does fine by burning CD's, but Toast is handier for burning and copying non-musical files and documents. In fact, Toast 5, with the bundled Spin Doctor, is the only way to go if you're converting analog to digital and editing out "dead space" and other objectionable noise on the wave forms. Toast 6, on the other hand, includes an "improved" Spin Doctor (v. 2) that makes the aforesaid editing a laborious, imprecise, and impractical exercise. If you're planning to do manual editing of extended audio tracks--a radio broadcast, for example--forget about Toast 6. But now you have another messy problem: Toast 5 is not designed for OSX, and Roxio no longer offers as a download the necessary upgrade to make Spin Doctor, v. 1, compatible with OSX.The solution? Go with Toast 5 and use it in OS9. Or switch to a shareware program like Sound Studio (more complicated and time-consuming than Spin Doctor). Or switch to a PC and pick up Cool Edit.
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Summary: May be preferable to Toast 6
Review: Apple's iTunes does fine by burning CD's, but Toast is handier for burning and copying non-musical files and documents. In fact, Toast 5, with the bundled Spin Doctor, is the only way to go if you're converting analog to digital and editing out "dead space" and other objectionable noise on the wave forms. Toast 6, on the other hand, includes an "improved" Spin Doctor (v. 2) that makes the aforesaid editing a laborious, imprecise, and impractical exercise. If you're planning to do manual editing of extended audio tracks--a radio broadcast, for example--forget about Toast 6. But now you have another messy problem: Toast 5 is not designed for OSX, and Roxio no longer offers as a download the necessary upgrade to make Spin Doctor, v. 1, compatible with OSX. The solution? Go with Toast 5 and use it in OS9. Or switch to a shareware program like Sound Studio (more complicated and time-consuming than Spin Doctor). Or switch to a PC and pick up Cool Edit.
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Summary: NO STARS FOR (BURNT) TOAST WITH JAM
Review: BACKGROUND: I am a professional guitarist/composer (and an attorney). My various efforts have received favorable reviews from THE NEW YORK TIMES (among many other diverse sources). I made the grave mistake of buying TOAST WITH JAM for mastering because Roxio touts it (on the box) as "Professional Audio CD Mastering" for the MAC. (I read somewhere that it is an äward winning program.) FACTS: JAM FAILED TO PERFORM THE MOST BASIC FUNCTION OF SUCCESSFULLY PLACING A PROTOOLS LE SPLIT STEREO FILE IN THE TRACK LIST. I attempted to open up a ProTools LE split stereo file ready to be burned -- no tweaking necessary. It opened the left/right files up as two separate mono files in sequence contrary to the explicit directions on p. 19 of the JAM 5 manual. It would not combine the files to produce a stereo track as the manual said it would. Sighing, I closed the program. ROXIO's RESPONCE: I immediately emailed Roxio; Roxio "help" said that this was a "KNOWN ISSUE" requiring an upload to correct the defect. Problem is they don't have one available for my problem ....but....they said that they're working on it. The program is useless for my purposes. Richard Rabatin
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Summary: Ti is strong and attractive: and the Toaster burns too
Review: Earlier this year I purchased my first ever CD-RW. I had been planning this purchase for several years, but had not found a CD-RW model I really liked. The other problem was that I have a Mac G3-300, the old top of the line Graphics machine. Having found an iomega CD-RW for a good price I tried to use Virual PC and the enclosed software to ceate CD's. This did not work. Later that day I surfed worldwide for a solution to my problem. Roxio had a Titanium Toaster available and some good looking claims.It seemed like ages until the Toaster arrived in Sydney. It was the correct voltage and didn't explode as the 110v version might have. It has survived systems 8.x and 9.x with ease. Only the ATA 33 buses on my IDE drives slow it down. But the System and software are on the native SCSI drive. The GUI is easy to learn; the manual is extensive, but somehow compact; the toaster's functionality is top class, allowing a wide variety of formats and uses; inbuilt test and saftey features abound. Overall its a worthwhile product to own, very fexible and above all easy to learn. Make sure you always have at least two CD-RW's available for live system testing, building up potential CD-R's and other such tasks. CD-RW's can prove invaluable as a source of joy when CD-R's would otherwise have caused grief. Don't expect miracles from your computer processor and busses, the cleanest recordings happen when internt connections, and preferrably LAN connections are not active. However, the LAN can sometimes ba a source of disk based information. (Don't use the Internet as a live source when burning toast, the Vegemite sticks to the keyboard.) Disk based information transfers much more cleanly than CD-ROM based information - even with the two CD-drives on two different busses. And get a copy of iTunes 2 (free from Apple) as this will help organise your ".mp3" files over time, it also allows file refernces to be used in the toaster when making CD's, saving disk space. The frisbee is alsways well burned or is that toasted?
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Summary: Great for Mac users
Review: Great overall for Macs. I got this software mainly due to the fact that iPhoto does not allow for multisession burning. Using this software allows me to achieve this although it not as easy as I originally thought (nothing is as easy as using Mac software - oh well). Also, I had some problems making cross-platform (Mac/PC) discs.
Additionally, the included Discus software is pretty good for making labels.
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Summary: Great for Mac users
Review: Great overall for Macs. I got this software mainly due to the fact that iPhoto does not allow for multisession burning. Using this software allows me to achieve this although it not as easy as I originally thought (nothing is as easy as using Mac software - oh well). Also, I had some problems making cross-platform (Mac/PC) discs.
Additionally, the included Discus software is pretty good for making labels.
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Summary: Toast 5.0 burns cross platform discs
Review: I absolutely love Toast 5.0 It allows me to make iMovies on my Mac, transfer them to QuickTime, and burn cross platform disks. This is especially great in education, where I use Mac, but three fourths of my students use Windows based platforms. We can do multi-media projects and they are accesible to almost anyone. I was worried that the Apple 'disc burner' software would put Toast out of business, but for anything but the most basic burn, Toast is still the best.
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Summary: A lot for the money
Review: I am very impressed with all this software has to offer. It is also very easy to use.
I am transferring all my old records, cassetes, and open reel tapes using the Spin Doctor program.
It provides me with filters to clean up noise as well as enhancing filters that make great sound improvements
to my old analogue stuff.
It also is very easy to burn CD's and make cool labels for them. I got a good price from Amazon and a rebate which makes it an even better deal but if you pay full price it is still a bargain.
Some of the software included I haven't used yet so I won't comment.
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Summary: Unreliable and poor support from Roxio
Review: I bought this close to six months ago, and I still can't reliably burn data or music CD-R or CD-RW. Roxio's tech support sometimes neglects to respond to queries, and their repertoire seems to consist of 1) blame the drive (i.e., have the consumer get a new one if it is still in warranty) and 2) blame the OS (i.e., the drivers are part of Mac OS X, not Toast, so the problem must lie there). Neither of these are acceptable without some diagnostic information.
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