[MPMoriarty]

I am considering purchasing Toast to burn my cds as I hear that version 6 is really fast and offers a lot of features.

The question I have though is that...

Can I use Toast to burn audio cds containing the songs I purchased from iTMS?

Or am I restricted to using iTunes to burn audio cds with those files?

I tried searching the forums and couldn't find anything. Maybe this was discussed already, but I may have missed it.

Thanks for your help,

Mike

[wataru]

Originally posted by MPMoriarty:
Can I use Toast to burn audio cds containing the songs I purchased from iTMS?

Or am I restricted to using iTunes to burn audio cds with those files?

I haven't tried it, but my suspicion is that Toast can't decode m4p, so the answer is no.

Note that Toast cannot burn any faster than iTunes; burn speed is determined entirely by your drive, not the software you use on it.

[MPMoriarty]

While that is true about your cd writer's burning speed, software still plays a good role in the burning process (caching files, etc). Some cd burning applications can write cds more reliable than others. And this has nothing to do with hardware sometimes, but the software you are using.

I used to use Dragon Burn in the past and popped out many coasters. Switched to using another burning app and didn't have any bad burns.

So basically I am stuck using iTunes to burn iTMS bought songs and not any other applications?

It doesn't really matter much. I was just wondering whether or not I could use a different burning applicaiton.

Mike

[Graymalkin]

Toast does indeed work with protected AAC files. I've burned several CDs with songs off iTMS without any problem. Toast uses Quicktime to do the audio translation and as such is able to burn just about any type of audio file Quicktime is able to understand. I've been burning CDs with Toast 5.2, I doubt you'd have any problem at all using version 6.

[booboo]

Toast is a good application (although I'm not too impressed with version 6 - still using 5.2)

If you have any leanings towards serious audio, consider a bundle of Toast with Jam. Jam is a pro-audio application that gives you much more control over your final audio CD, you can create cross-fades and level changes, plus the ability to produce CD's that can be mastered from.

[wataru]

Originally posted by Graymalkin:
Toast does indeed work with protected AAC files.

Shows what I know. Thanks for the correction.