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Roxio Toast 7 Titanium (Mac) [Old Version]
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List Price : $99.99
Our Price : too low to display
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Why I buy this one ?
- Drag and drop photos from iPhoto to create slideshows more easily than ever
- Add your own menus, buttons and chapters for viewing on a home DVD player
- Use Hollywood-style effects like pan and Zoom&cross fades for stunning home films
- Spin Doctor 2 helps users digitize vinyl records and tapes, to transfer them to CD at perfect quality
- Convert DivX to DVD and create DivX discs
What our customer's say!
"Bought it by mistake", bought it by mistake with same order i bought the TOAST 8... DUH!!! I ordered many items that time, it was too late to return it when I realized my mistake...why the still saling the old version having a new one on the market? I still have it sealed.
"Toast 7 review", Good product, however you cannot burn music downloaded to Itunes onto a cd or dvd
"The best!", Quite simply the best burning software for Mac users. Period. Does everything you could want it to do...and more. If you own a Mac, you need Toast!!
"Still the OSX Champ", Another rock solid version! Incorporating most of the features of Popcorn, and easy to use as ever. Recognizes any writer I point it at, unlike OSX' native burner. Easily writes perfect dual layer dvds on a variety of media. Accepts media that iTunes and iDVD reject.
"Roxio Toast 7 Titanium, Mac", A lot better than the Mac supplied program but I sure wish Nero made a Mac version.
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Read this reviews before You buy...
"Caveat: can't backup copy-protected dvds.", And apparently most (if not all) DVDs of interest (such as videos) are copy-protected.
So, if you buy a video DVD, chances are you can't back it up with this software.
"Decent product, but poor customer service", I bought my copy of Toast 7 late last year. Before using it for the first time, I registered the thing and downloaded the 7.0.2 update. I then set about using the DVD music disc feature to make a disc of Xmas music.
Well, imagine my surprise, after I had finished the thing several hours later, when playback was slow! Turns out that the 7.0.2 update had introduced a bug that resulted in problems with the sample rate if you did not use specific file types and/or the sample rate of the audio file was not 48kHz. Fortunately, it was easy to work around. Unfortunately, it took Sonic Solutions MONTHS to post an update.
In the meantime, I was receiving regular invitations from Sonic Solutions to upgrade - to Toast 7! I would write to them, remind them that I was already a registered user of Toast 7, and ask them to stop sending me these Toast 7 upgrade notifications, but that never worked. I eventually had to opt out of all communications from them. Of course, this meant that I didn't learn about the 7.1 update until several weeks after it had been made available.
The product works well enough, though, except for the DVD music disc feature and some of the disk copy options, it doesn't do much that I couldn't already do with the software that came with my Mac.
A big annoyance is the one-second gap automatically inserted between songs when creating DVD music disks. There is no way to set the pause to zero (or to more than one second, for that matter); if you want to include songs that flow into each other without the gap, you have to first combine them into one audio file. This seems rather silly to me. After all, DVD movies don't have one-second gaps between chapters.
I will say that my experiences with Toast have so far been much, much better than with Easy CD Creator back when I was still using a Windows PC. But there is still lots of room for improvement. I'm giving it three stars because 2.5 isn't an available option.
"Satisfied", This product was purchased for a specific purpose, based on previous experience, and it has performed properly, as expected.
"ok", this program does not allow you to design your own menus for you dvds. All it has is the premade themes to choose from. It does allow you to choose no menu, however, and just play when inserted. For a mac user, its really not that much better than iDVD.
"Beating My Head On The Desk (UPDATE: WORSE THAN I THOUGHT!!!)", I've read all of the glowing reviews of Toast Titanium 7 - "makes music DVDs, multi-DVD spanning backups, cures cancer, raises the dead, etc." And having used previous versions of Toast, I thought I'd spring for the upgrade. Big mistake.
Although I've been using computers for 20 years now (mostly Macs), I've had nothing but problems with this new version of Toast. I haven't had a single successful burn yet, on any kind of media, recording any kind of format. I thought updating to the latest version might be helpful, but Roxio won't let you download it unless you're a registered user on their website.
Understandable - but I AM a registered user, and their system wouldn't recognize me. So I tried to open a new account, and it wouldn't let me. Okay, I clicked their "forgot my password" button, and they say they'll send me a link via email. I've played that little game for about 3 days now, and never a message/link from Roxio.
Trying to solve my tech problems online hasn't helped; Toast keeps giving me error codes which aren't defined anywhere on Roxio's help pages.
Maybe, some bright and glorious day, I'll actually get the program to work and it will merit more than 1 star. But my old version (5.2.3) worked fine, and I dropped a lot of money for a few glittery features...and instead lost all the previous functionality and raised my blood pressure in the bargain. Shame on you, Roxio!
UPDATE: Okay, three hair-pulling days later I STILL haven't had a successful burn. It's amazing what new "features" Roxio has added this time around. For instance, Toast will tell you that you have more than enough room on your disk for the burn, then grind away for an hour or so, then pop up a message saying "Ooh, sorry, there's not enough space after all." Or it's fun to ask it to burn a VCD - at which point it suddenly can't find my disc burner anymore (funny, it was there a moment ago). Want to compress a long movie the way you can in Popcorn? Well, there's probably a way - but [CENSORED] if I can find it by steering through Toast's incredibly unintuitive interface.
And, oh yes, Roxio's website still won't admit that I'm a customer. If you log on with a new email address and password (as a new user), you'll be able to download the latest update. And you'd better do it during that session, because next time you try to log on, Roxio will have no recollection of your sign-in information (well nearly none - they recognize your email address, but deny your password so you CAN'T log in. Ask them to send you a password reminder, and nothing ever ever ever comes.)
I've used Toast for years, and thought it was a great program. I'm NOT an idiot - honest. But Toast Titanium 7 has so far been a complete and frustrating waste of my money. ZERO STARS!!!!!!!!!!! (Roxio - I loathe you!)
UPDATE #2 - After a month of trying, I've finally been able to burn a single disk! Wow! Of course, I could have done this with iDVD, any earlier version of Toast, or simply the Mac's OS...but where would the challenge (or expense) be in that? Currently I'm trying to make one of the much-touted "Music DVD" disks - but for some reason, even though all of my music files are ALREADY compressed to the MP3 specs that Roxio wants, it's re-encoding every freakin' song. On a G4 Mac with dual processors, it seems like it will take about 8 hours to create a single disk. And really, all Toast is doing is adding a menu structure to an MP3 disk that should have taken about 10 minutes to burn. To quote Monty Python: "RUN AWAY!! RUN AWAY!!"
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