Product Description

Roxio Toast 9 Titanium [OLD VERSION]

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #404 in Software
• Brand: Roxio
• Released on: 2008-04-01
• Platform: Macintosh
• Format: CD-ROM

Features

• Compress, copy and convert video to watch on popular mobile devices; burn to CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, HD DVD
• Capture streaming audio from any source, including the Internet, to build a library of audio tracks; easily edit with CD Spin Doctor
• Burn or play your favorite TV shows--even those captured from your TiVo--on your iPhone or PSP
• Burn HD DVD and Blu-ray Discs--archive up to 12,500 music tracks, 50,000 photos, or hours of HD video
• Schedule backups to CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, HD DVD, network volumes, and removable storage devices like a USB flash drive or hard disk

Amazon.com
Get the most from your digital media and Mac OS X, with Toast 9. Extending your options to Blu-ray and HD DVD media, it sets the standard yet again for burning on the Mac and includes a host of new features. Compress, copy and convert video to watch on popular mobile devices. Trim unwanted segments. Capture streaming audio from any source, even automatically add title, artist and other tags--then enjoy it on your iPod. Burn or play your favorite TV shows--even those captured from your TiVo--on your iPhone or PSP. It's everything you need to Toast your digital life!

Take your favorite TV shows--including HD recordings--to go, with easy TiVoToGo transfers.

Fit-to-DVD compression technology fits an entire 9 GB dual-layer DVD video to a standard 4.7 GB recordable DVD disc.

Burn up to 30 GB on a single HD DVD disc or up to 50 GB on a single Blu-ray Disc--archive up to 12,500 music tracks, 50,000 photos, or hours of HD video.

Enjoy Your Life in Hi-Def
For the first time, create High Definition Blu-ray, HD DVD or standard DVD discs of your AVCHD camcorder footage, TV shows recorded by TiVo or EyeTV. You can even burn all your high-def photos and slideshows!

The Road Warrior Entertainment System
Stream your recorded TiVo shows, home movies and more from your Mac to your WiFi connected iPhone, iPod Touch, or internet-connected Mac or PC. Quickly browse through all your available shows, click and enjoy!

Create Your Own Director's Cut
Enjoy up to 4 hours of DVD-Video on a single DVD compilation of your favorite movies or TV shows. Choose the individual DVD movies, audio and languages you want, while maximizing available disc space and video quality.

Mac & PC Data Spanning
Span files of any size across multiple discs--including Blu-ray and HD DVD discs--and then restore and read them on either a Mac or a PC. And now Toast 9 puts you in the driver's seat enabling you to save and backup selected files without splitting them across multiple discs.

Capture music from the Internet or any audio source playing through your Mac and use Toast 9's new audio fingerprinting technology to identify song title, artist, genre and more.

Stream your recorded TiVo shows, home movies and more from your Mac to your WiFi connected iPhone, iPod Touch, or internet-connected Mac or PC.

Create perfect mixes with smooth graphical DJ-style crossfades and transitions.

Identify Songs for Your Music
Build a huge music library by capturing music from the Internet or any audio source playing through your Mac and use Toast 9's new audio fingerprinting technology to identify song title, artist, genre and more!

Blu-ray and HD DVD Support
Burn up to 30 GB on a single HD DVD disc or up to 50 GB on a single Blu-ray disc--archive up to 12,500 music tracks, 50,000 photos, or hours of HD video.

Perfect Audio CDs & DVDs
Creating your best music mix has never been easier with the new CD Spin Doctor! Create perfect mixes with smooth graphical DJ-style crossfades and transitions. Adjust output levels, trim unwanted sections, apply sound enhancing filters, set pauses between tracks, and more. Then burn audio CDs that are 100% true to the official Redbook specification.

Save and catalog your data and discs

• Improved--Burn up to 30 GB on a single HD DVD disc or up to 50 GB on a single Blu-ray Disc--archive up to 12,500 music tracks, 50,000 photos, or hours of HD video.
• Improved--Span files of any size across multiple discs--now including HD DVD--and then restore and read them on either a Mac or a PC.
• Automatically catalog and track the contents of your discs--easily locate any file, even when the discs aren't in the drive.
• Create hybrid discs with content unique to the Mac or PC--including custom icons, background images, and discs that "autorun" on PCs.
• Improved--Schedule backups to CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, HD DVD, network volumes, and removable storage devices like a USB flash drive or hard disk.

Create and enjoy the best-sounding audio CDs and DVDs

• New--Capture streaming audio from any source, including the Internet, to build a library of audio tracks.
• New--Unique audio fingerprinting technology identifies untagged music files and adds name, artist, album and other file info--no more "Track_01"!
• Improved--Easily edit audio tracks within the new CD Spin Doctor.
• Create perfect mixes with smooth graphical DJ-style crossfades and transitions.
• Control your audio--adjust output levels, trim unwanted sections, apply sound enhancing filters, and more.
• Restore music from LPs and tapes, using the CD Spin Doctor Recording Assistant featuring guided recording, automatic track definition, noise reduction, and sound filtering.
• Improved--Print labels directly to disc using LightScribe

Compress and copy your discs

• New--Batch DVD-Video saves you time by letting you use multiple DVD-Video folders for Fit-to-DVD compression or conversion.
• Improved--With DVD compilation you can now enjoy up to 4 hours of DVD-Video on a single disc.
• Create backup copies of an audio CD with a single click.
• Fit-to-DVD compression technology fits an entire 9 GB dual-layer DVD video to a standard 4.7 GB recordable DVD disc.
• Create your own Director's Cut--choose the individual DVD movies, audio and languages you want, while maximizing available disc space and video quality.
• Preview the video and audio of movies and extras before copying.

Watch your TV shows, videos and photos any way you want

• New--Video cropping and trimming features let you easily remove unwanted video segments before you burn to disc or move to your portable player.
• New--Create High Definition Blu-ray, HD DVD or standard DVD discs of your HD camcorder footage, high resolution slide shows or other HD video content.
• New--Watch your recorded TiVo or EyeTV shows via the Internet--stream video from your Mac to your iPhone or Internet-connected PC or Mac!
• Improved--Take your favorite TV shows--including HD recordings--to go, with easy TiVoToGo transfers. Watch on your Mac, burn to a DVD, BD or HD DVD disc or export to your iPod or PSP.
• Improved--Set your own custom background images, or choose from an extended set of DVD menus for HD and standard definition discs.

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Customer Reviews

Worth considering for first-time users who find their Mac awkward at performing certain tasks (but don't count on the rebate)
If Roxio Toast offers so many features not otherwise intrinsic to the supposedly user-friendly applications of Macintosh computers, why hasn't mammoth Apple simply bought out this relative small fry (now listed on the exchange as Sonic Solutions)? Is it because Roxio is too well-positioned, cutting edge, undervalued and besieged by competing offers to be easy prey for Apple (like Yahoo evading the presumptuous Microsoft)? Or is it because Roxio's technology and software don't pass the stringent requirements of the makers of the iPod and MacAir?

If Toast 9 is sufficiently compelling in quality, improvements and price to be worth ditching Toast 8 (which I purchased in late 2007), then by all means make the upgrade and pay the freight. It's certainly the brightest and most colorful software program of its kind, more inviting and occasionally more user- friendly than Apple's comparable onboard programs. And maybe for TiVo fans and Blue Ray enthusiasts, it repays the investment. All I know is that for my needs Toast 8 makes certain tasks (copying a CD or DVD, burning an audio or video file), somewhat quicker and more convenient than the Apple counterpart. Still, I find it necessary to be quite selective about what I use it for. If you have any plans to edit wave patterns in Spin Doctor, for example, don't expect anything close to precision--in fact, they're unreadable (darn pretty, though), and there's no indication that Roxio has addressed this problem in Toast 9. I've had to purchase both Sound Studio and WireTap Studio to to be able to get precisely edited program material for Public Radio broadcast.

Finally, if you're counting on the rebate, better photocopy and authenticate each and every step in the process, and be prepared to spend additional time afterwards calling the company about the missing rebate. I must have spent over an hour taking pains to follow the instructions to the letter because I was keenly aware of the "gotcha mentality" from previous experience, But the proof from the original carton was insufficient to convince Roxio to reimburse me the twenty dollars for upgrading from Toast 6 to Toast 8. This is definitely not a company that suits the style of a Jeff Bezos let along Stephen Jobs.

Not Worth Buying
I just recently upgraded from Toast8 to Toast9. This new version is full of bugs. My Tivo Transfer function for instance won't work anymore. It ran 16 hours encoding a 21min clip I had from my Canon HV30 on a Mac G5 dual processor machine before it finally burned the DVD. Crashes repeatedly where my Toast8 worked fine. I would not upgrade to this version until they have more fixes.

Horribly buggy and slow
I'm usually a fan of Toast, but this release is very disappointing. I was looking forward to burning Blu_rays from my High-Def video cameras. Unfortunately, so far this has not been possible due to crashes every time it tries to encode video.

Not only does it crash frequently, it is very slow. Not in terms of heavy-duty stuff like encoding video - but trivial things like the interface response time, and startup time.

I had been using Toast 7, which is fast, convenient and reliable. It is one of the better Mac applications around. And I'm actually still using Toast 7, and will until they get the bugs out of Toast 9 and get the video encoder burning working properly.

I couldn't even get Toast 9 to recognize a perfectly valid disk image. So I went back to Toast 7 and it worked perfectly. I'm seriously wondering how this one got past quality control. I feel stupid for having spent my money on this upgrade.