![]() Roxio announced Toast 8 Titanium in January of 2007. Toast 6 Titanium included another Roxio app, CD Spin Doctor 2, which can clean noise from an audio track. It also gained the ability to compress and encrypt files before burning them. Its "ToastAnywhere" feature let users burn discs inserted in another Mac running Toast on the local network, through Apple's Rendezvous protocol. Unlike Apple's iDVD, it supported external DVD burners. Version 6 also added DVD authoring features, enabling the creation of video and photo DVDs with menus and buttons. Toast 5 Titanium introduced support for Video CD and DVD burning, which was improved in version 6 by addition of MPEG-2 encoding. With version 5, Toast was renamed "Toast Titanium" and merged with a formerly separate application, Toast DVD. Toast 4 is the last release that can run on System 7 with a 68k CPU. In 1997, the product and team was purchased by Adaptec, and later transferred to Roxio (then a division of Adaptec). Toast was conceived of by Greg Kerr in 1993, then CEO of Astarte, who outsourced development to Markus Fest. It also provides support for audio and video formats that QuickTime does not support, such as FLAC and Ogg. Its name is a play on the word burn, a term used for the writing of information onto a disc through the use of a laser.ĭiscs can be burned directly through Mac OS X, but Toast provides added control over the process as well as extra features, including file recovery for damaged discs, cataloging and tracking of files burned to disc. Unless you skipped last year’s 64-bit compatibility upgrade and plan to install macOS Catalina soon, save your money and see what the next upgrade brings.Toast is an optical disc authoring and media conversion software application for macOS and classic Mac OS. ![]() While keeping the disc burning torch lit for so long after Apple ejected optical drives from the Mac is admirable, we can’t help but feel Roxio Toast 18 is a cash grab release. (Presumably this will be addressed in a future update.) Bottom line That means disc images won’t open within Toast 17 or 18 when running macOS Catalina, but the situation isn’t as dire as it sounds, since they can still be mounted from the Finder for the time being. ![]() The user interface isn’t particularly intuitive and worse yet, HEIF images aren’t supported, so recent iPhone images can’t be imported without first saving as JPEG files.Īlthough the core Toast Titanium app is 64-bit, the built-in ToastImageMounter component remains 32-bit at this writing. The app is super basic-import an existing photo, then step through a variety of different screens where you add different looks and styles, eventually transforming each picture into a work of art. Included in both versions of Toast 18, Akrilic feels more than a little like an aborted smartphone app ported to macOS. The new kid on the block, Roxio Akrilic, transforms photos into art, but that’s nowhere near enough to justify a paid upgrade to Toast 18. It’s a curious addition, because at first glance the software appears to duplicate functionality found elsewhere in the bundle-specifically Painter Essentials, owned by parent company Corel. ![]() ![]() Sadly, Roxio has chosen to remove excellent slideshow app Boinx FotoMagico from the Toast 18 Pro lineup in favor of a new digital art tool called Akrilic. ![]()
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