Adaptec's Toast 5.0.1 will support both Disc Burner and iTunes with its own system extensions, when the update is released in "some time in April."
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is whether Toast will still suck up all the CPU, or let you work on other things while burning. I've kept my iTunes extension set on for a few weeks now, trading off burn speed and power user features for ease of use and the ability to work on other things while burning. Anyone play with Toast 5.0 yet?
toast 5.0.1 should be carbonized, and it works with itunes as-is now
Toast 5.0 is a major improvement over 4. No need to find something to do while your CD burns. You're free to do whatever you want while Toast runs in the background. It's been very reliable with the Yamaha drives I've used it with. No coasters yet.
Right, Toast 5 lets you burn in the background in OS 9 or OS X (just like iTunes), but with tons more features and without the extra step of writing a second (large) scratch file to the hard drive (so it takes less time to burn a CD even at the same rated speed, i.e 8x,10x, whatever).
Roxio is the software sub of Adaptec. Can't wait to try it with my QPS Firewire drive. Hopefully will test out under OS X on Saturday (Thanks Apple for upgrading order to Fedex Sat Delivery!).
Are you using a Burn-Proof Yamaha, or is Toast actually handling the background burning by itself?
From what I read Toast 5 does currently conflict with iTunes and Disc Burner, but only on EXTERNAL writers. The fix in 5.1 will let you use USB or Firewire CDR/CDRW drives and iTunes or Disc Burner without having to creat extension sets and rebooting. Appearantly (supported) internal IDE/ATAPI CDRW drives can use 5.0 Toast Titanium with iTunes and Disc Burner just fine.
Burn Proof does nothing for background burning per se. It just lets you recover from a buffer underrun (which IS a great thing). Background burning is a feature of the authoring software and yes, the BIG THING about Toast 5 is it finally really does burn in the background with any CDR/CDRW and does it whether you are in Mac OS 9.x or X (when they release the OS X version update, which is due on Saturday). Some stores are starting to sell Toast 5 already, so the OS X update will be a download.
Yamaha does not make, nor have they ever made, a Burn-Proof CD burner. I think it's only Plextor/QPS drives
that have the ability.
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Roxio owns Toast now.
I believe Roxio is the owner/developer of Toast now, not Adaptec. May want to update the headline.