Toast 6.1 available

[Frobozz]

Toast 6.1 will be available for download from the Roxio site late today or maybe tomorrow. Here's a description of the changes. It's unfortunate, but not surprising, that Toast won't accept iTunes Music Store tracks any more. But everything else that is changed is an improvement.

http://boards.support.roxio.com/roxio/board/message?board.id=0000020&message.id=13010#M13010

[destreaga]

As soon as that happens I can move to Tiger

[terryj]

* Following discussions with Apple, this version will no longer allow customers to create audio CDs, audio DVDs, or export audio to their hard drive using purchased iTunes music store content.

Another REASON ( besides my already mentioned ones)
why I'm sticking to Panther ( and now, Toast 6.09)

[willrob]

It's available now.

[DanSlagle]

Who cares? - I JHynm all my songs anyway
http://hymn-project.org/jhymndoc/

[Artful Dodger]

DanSlagle
Posted: May 11, 2005 07:08
Who cares? - I JHynm all my songs anyway
http://hymn-project.org/jhymndoc/

Thanks for that link

[DanSlagle]

Roxio is just being nasty about it since they own Napter now.

[AntnyMD]

I can believe that Apple pressured Roxio to disable support for DRM-tagged songs from iTMS. With Toast, you could make unlimited copies of iTMS tracks, whereas in iTunes, I think you are now limited to 7 or 8 burns of a playlist (down from 10).

I believe you can run two versions of Toast side-by-side, so I plan to install 6.1 if it fixes my burning issues (6.0.9 + Tiger has ruined two DVD+R DL), and use 6.0.9 for making audio mix CDs.

[Frobozz]

That's silly, Dan. Roxio Toast is no longer owned by the company that owns Napster. Sonic bought Toast and the Roxio name.

It's a pretty safe bet that Sonic/Roxio would much prefer having ITMS burn capability in Toast and Jam. The only reason I can think of why Apple could care about whether Toast burns these tracks is that Apple places a limit of a maximum 7 burns from an ITMS track. They can't control how many are burned with Toast.

But this, too, is silly because once you've burned on audio CD you can copy it a zillion times. It seems a lot of nuisance that serves no real purpose.

[Frobozz]

I believe you can run two versions of Toast side-by-side, so I plan to install 6.1 if it fixes my burning issues (6.0.9 + Tiger has ruined two DVD+R DL), and use 6.0.9 for making audio mix CDs.

OS 10.3.9 + QuickTime 6.5 + Toast 6.0.7 or 6.0.9 is the last combination that will burn or export ITMS tracks from Toast. Updating to either QuickTime 7 in Panther or to Tiger eliminates this capability regardless of the version of Toast you are using.

Also note that Toast 6.0.9 is no longer available for download.

[chikanakan]

I heard Apple threatened to sue Roxio under the DMCA for burning iTMS content. Even more reason to not use iTMS. Funny how Apple can burn iTMS content in iDVD and use them in iMovie without restriction.

[AntnyMD]

Ah, so its QuickTime 7 that breaks iTMS music from being burned in Toast. Frobozz's point about copying an audio CD is well taken.