Roxio Toast 5 Titanium [OLD VERSION]
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Software Reviews of Roxio Toast 5 Titanium [OLD VERSION]
Customer Review: You won't get burnt with Toast
Summary: 5 Stars
Toast was one of the first programs I bought for my OS X iMac, and I've certainly not regretted handing over the money in the slightest. It works perfectly with an Iomega external USB drive on my iBook and G3 iMac, and also with the Superdrive on my G4 flat-screen iMac. Why get Toast when OS X will already burn CDs and DVDs? I wanted it mostly for its VideoCD features - before I was lucky enough to have an iMac had a Superdrive, I wanted to make discs that could be played in home DVD players. Thanks to iMovie and Toast, that's exactly what I did: made lots of home movies in VideoCD format. Toast even provides a plug-in for iMovie and QuickTime to make the entire process remarkably painless. OK, so the quality of VideoCD wasn't a match for DVD, but it's pretty close to VHS quality and darn good fun.
After that, well, almost every time I burn a CD I reach for Toast. It's just so easy to use, and flexible - I can be sure that a CD I burn will work on my PC system as well as on my Mac for example. Recent updates to Toast add new features: be sure to download any patches!
The version with Jam is aimed more at professional musicians who want to create audio CDs that can act as masters for duplication - certainly not a feature I need (you don't want to hear me sing).
If you want a reliable, flexible, easy to use way of writing CDs and DVDs on your Mac, this is the solution. It even comes with other utilities that simplify converting old LP albums to CD audio.
Good value for money.
Customer Review: Eating Burned Toast
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm taking back some previous bad words about this program. The problem was that I had just mastered iTunes which, at the time, I thought could not be improved upon for burning CD's. Moreover, using a freeware download, I was able to digitize analog signals from vinyl LP's and cassettes, so why had I purchased Toast? Since then, I've had a chance to give Toast a fuller audition. To overuse those worn-out words by Amazonian enthusiasts: "simply amazing." Toast is as efficient, quick, user-friendly, and intuitive as any program you're likely to encounter (I honestly believe even my parents could have figured it out). Unlike iTunes, Toast does not require that you record music to hard disk before burning to CD, and the bundled program Spin Doctor not only is saving me loads of time in recording analog sources but permits filtering and audio enhancements as well.
Just a couple of recommendations: Don't try to keep moving back and forth between Toast and iTunes for CD burning. I know my iMac won't let me do it due to extension conflicts, and who wants to enable and disable extensions each time you use the program? Keep iTunes for organizing, cataloging, playing; use Toast for creating digital files from analog and then burning anything digital. Also, unless you have lots of time on your hands, beware of getting carried away with the filtering feature (which Toast allows you to monitor in real time). There's no end to the touching up and experimentation you can do. I've discovered that removing a trace of surface noise or tape hiss simply isn't worth the cost in either high frequencies or time and labor.
Customer Review: Keeps getting better
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been using toast for three years now and this version is the best yet. Recently, I burned a cd copied tracks from another cd, Aiff and mp3 files from my hard drive. Toast didn't miss a beat and all played great in my car stereo. I was able to do this in the background while surfing the Web. I can't think of another program I own that I am so pleased with.Customer Review: the best there is
Summary: 5 Stars
Toast just keeps getting better and better with each version that's released.You really don't have to read any instructions... just dragging and dropping files, disk images or mounted disk drives/partitions onto the Toast interface makes everything intuitive.
Burning a CD couldn't really be much easier with the level of control (naming your CD, changing how it will appear when opened, etc.) you get in this application.
Creating a CD image on your desktop goes by FAST so if you're on a slow network, you can make an image on your desktop, then burn from that without worrying about user loads on your network.
Naturally, this software will also burn/copy PC-only and PC/Mac hybrid discs in addition to Mac-only CDs. This is a professional industry-grade package. For CD burning software, you can't get much better than this product.
Customer Review: Unreliable and poor support from Roxio
Summary: 1 Stars
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.