Roxio Toast

Discs 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. It also provides support for audio and video formats that QuickTime does not support, such as FLAC and Ogg Vorbis.

History

Toast was conceived of by Greg Kerr in 1993, then CEO of Astarte, who outsourced development to Markus Fest. In 1997, the product and team was purchased by Adaptec, and later transferred to Roxio (then a division of Adaptec).

Toast 4 is the last release that can run on System 7 with a 68k CPU. With version 5, Toast was renamed "Toast Titanium" and merged with a formerly separate application, Toast DVD. Toast 5 Titanium introduced support for Video CD and DVD burning, which was improved in version 6 by addition of MPEG-2 encoding.

Version 6 also added DVD authoring features, enabling the creation of video and photo DVDs with menus and buttons. Unlike Apple's iDVD, it supported external DVD burners. Its "ToastAnywhere" feature let users burn discs inserted in another Mac running Toast on the local network, through Apple's Rendezvous protocol. It also gained the ability to compress and encrypt files before burning them.

Toast 6 Titanium included another Roxio app, CD Spin Doctor 2, which can clean noise from an audio track.

Roxio announced Toast 8 Titanium in January 2007. Toast 8 Titanium added multiple features including TiVoToGo and Blu-ray support.