4 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
 May be preferable to Toast 6, 2003-12-05
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.
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 Great for Mac users, 2003-09-06
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.
hella good, 2003-06-21
it's the best, all i'm waiting4is2get my cd/dvd recorder! have explored it, very good
14 of 16 customers found the following review helpful:
 Spin Doctor let-down, 2003-04-28
I bought Toast Titanium so I could record LP records and cassette tapes to CD. Spin Doctor has turned out to be an extremely poor application.It will not allow me to turn down the recording volume enough to prevent distortion. The application crashes constantly while I'm setting up beginnings and endpoints of the digitized music. Roxio support told me to delete a file which did not help. With Mac OSX 10.2.3 you can not listen to the music as you digitize it. Roxio support says this is due to Mac going to OSX and that they have no plans to fix it. There is no "help" icon. If information is not addressed in the hard copy instructions you are out of luck. This appears to be a quick and dirty application for OS9 that doesn't function well with OSX 10.2.* or later. Spin Doctor was the entire reason that I bought Toast and frankly iTunes (V3) is easier to use than toast when it comes to organizing and using music.
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
Loaded With Features, Yet Still Missing Some, 2003-04-25
Roxio Toast Titanium edition is a very complete program that any amateur "ripper" should be happy with. The program's limitless audio burning features and data/video/photo choices make it one of the best programs for customizing CDs and burning Video CDs (VCDs). One of the best features as far as I'm concerned is the MP3 burning ability, which lots of earlier programs did not come with. If you have a MP#-compatible CD player or computer, you can store hundreds of more songs on a MP3 disk than on a regular CD. One of the only features I was disapointed with was the CD labeling software. The software included was only a demo, which was a surprise to me because from the retailer review (which is really just an advertisement) it sounded like I was going to be getting a much better program. I think the PR team at Roxio did a little creative number to get around the fact that it was a demo. The program also did not allow designing of many popular CD inserts...OVERVIEW Pros:
-Lots of Features
-MP3 Abilities
-Video/Photo Choices
-Combatibility with many CD-Drives Cons:
-Bad CD Labeling Software
-iMovie VCD Extension did not Work
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