Cool Toast Thing

[Notefarm]

Wow I could have saved a whole bunch of CDs had I known about the fact that you can play or audition audio in Toast, totaly great if you want to check the levels of intros of songs before burnig a test CD.

Peace all

[lwilliam]

Jam can also do this. In fact, a very nice reason to upgrade to Jam is that you can preview the entire disk: It plays 5-6 seconds (selectable) of the beginning and ending of each song so you can check whether you like the length of the pauses.

The other really nice feature in Jam is that you can offset track 1 by whatever amount you need to compensate for the buffer sizes in some CD players (like many car Cd players). Sometimes the first track will lose the initial transient because it mutes the sound until the buffer fills. Jam can offset the first track by 20-200ms (whatever you want) and the opening track will never get cut off that way. Of course you can do this by manually adding a few ms of bland digital zeros at the beginning of the first track - assuming you always know what song will be the first track.

But hey...I used Toast for a couple of years before I finally got Jam and started seeing the advantages (for audio only, of course).

LW

[zedhed]

Hey, Jam and toast go well together. I have it for breakfast often! Sounds like they are both good programs.

[Frank S]

Somewhat OT, but I recently read that Toast version 4 will do background CD burning, which is a new advertised feature of v5 - its just not documented. If I don't have to, I'd rather not upgrade. Does anyone know how to do this? Any v5 users out there?

[zedhed]

I think the latest toast enables recording to dvd also. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Notefarm]

Hay cool thanx for the heads up on the Jam front I do have that programe, but taost seemed like such a good dose of instant gratification, I have put off learning Jam, it seems a little more involved, but that is a great feture, to cut down on burning test CDs. I'm sold and hiting the books,

Cheers
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