Roxio Toast 5 Titanium [OLD VERSION]
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Software Reviews of Roxio Toast 5 Titanium [OLD VERSION]
Customer Review: Super but for 1 small thing....
Summary: 5 Stars
yes Toast deserves all the superlatives. But anyone who burns VCDs will hope another small upgrade is on the way. While Toast will burn VCDs perfectly, there is NO option to create a menu to navigate your VCD tracks. Poor. Wintel version can do it - are Mac users chopped liver? It is a minor quibble 95% of users may not care about - but I do! So I hope roxio reads this!Customer Review: A nice job
Summary: 4 Stars
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.Customer Review: Feeling Toasty
Summary: 4 Stars
Toast is a really nice software package, although quirky at times. All the blame can't be placed on Toast. It, like so many other software titles, adds extensions to your Mac which can conflict with so many other extensions. Still, if your Mac is reasonably conflict free, you should be able to burn CDs or DVDs with fervor. The interface is clean, although not intuitive enough. (Click-and-hold a button for options is not an obvious method.) Toast does a very good job of burning Mac data, PC data and hybrid data CDs. Audio burning has also been improved in this version and, Toast can now recognize an audio image file to find track breaks. Previously only Jam was smart enough to recognize individual tracks in an audio image.Some tips: Increase the memory allocation to the application. Give Toast a large buffer (64K). Try to avoid disk-at-once recording. DAO is good for "live" recordings, where you don't want an audible gap between tracks, but it taxes the system. If you can stand to have gaps between the tracks, track-at-once is more reliable. Use test mode to determine if your system is able to transfer data quickly enough for the speed you've requested for a burn. DAO and high-speed burning require data to be transferred at very high data rates. You may find you need to burn at a slower speed to achieve reliable burns. The "Toast CD Reader" extension is only needed if you intend to use your CD burner to read existing data or audio CDs. If you only want to burn CDs with your burner, you can safely run without the extension.
Background burning is a nice feature, but, if you are using the system for other tasks while burning, you are at risk for data underruns. Also, if your source is MP3 files, remember, MP3s must be converted before actually being written to your new CD. This too can add to the delays in data transfer. If you have the disk space, convert MP3 files to AIFF files before burning and use the AIFF files with Toast for more reliable results.
Customer Review: The best
Summary: 5 Stars
This software is compatible with virtually any kind of burner, including burners meant only for PC's. It replaces Apple's burning extensions with Roxio's superior version, which allows programs like iTunes to burn CD's on burners that it wasn't supposed to support. You can master DVD's, VCD's, Hybrid PC-Mac discs, HFS+ hybrid, audio cd's, MP3 cd's, CD-i, ISO 9660, multi-track CD-ROM XA, device copy, disk images, enhanced music CD, mac os extended, the list goes on. Converts iMovies into VCDs to watch on your DVD player. Allow's the creation of disk images for those with only a burner that wish to duplicate disks. It allows amazing cross-platform compatibilty. Overall the greatest burning software ever made.Customer Review: Toast 5.0 burns cross platform discs
Summary: 5 Stars
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.