[muglo] Re: CD Burning Sessions
- From: Ilbert Walker <walker@xxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 09:26:10 -0400
Thanks very much for this helpful response, Leith
The info re the Roxio Discussion board will prove useful IF I decide to
buy Toast. What confuses me is our need to have to take all these extra
steps, after we have already purchased hardware etc which we thought
was capable of doing something - and which then turns out to be not so
- unless you have a techie diploma or mentality!
As Mary replied :
> Burning multiple sessions in the Finder in Panther is a bit involved
> but it can be done.
And the OSX Help menus seemed geared to those who are already Mac
afficianados - or frustratingly refuse to respond with info on the
actual problem you have !
The proliferation of comments on these discussion boards about
producing useless 'coasters' confirms that there are a lot of us so
called Dummies out there .The Dummy titles on so many books suggest
that the User is lacking - when the lack is often that of the SW or HW
supplier, or their programmers, who have limited understanding of User
Interface Design - and simple cognitive psychology.
Dummies of the World Unite !! - You have nothing to lose - but your
time and money !! ?? :-)
Ilbert
On 18 Jul 2004, at 7:59 AM, Leith Peterson wrote:
> Just so you know, Ilbert, if you buy Toast and register with them,
> you have access, with a password, to their discussion boards. I
> believe this is free of charge for Toast 5 and 6 users--4 is no
> longer supported. My experience is that Roxio puts out lots of
> explanation for their software. If you go into your support section,
> you should fact sheets (e.g. on burning hybrid CD's), many of which
> are quite helpful. At least, there were fact sheets there a couple
> of years ago when I looked. I know the discussion boards are still
> there, as I accessed them just last week.
>
> I'm not overly impressed with Toast 5.21 and went back to 5.02.
>
> Many software companies have these discussion forums for users, which
> provide peer to peer support, and I have often found them very
> useful. They are usually free.
>
> At 10:06 PM -0400 7/17/04, Ilbert Walker wrote:
>>
>> Replies here suggest buying Toast - yet another expense ? Before you
>> do, try reading some of the negative comments on Version tracker like
>> this one :
>>
>> I have been using Toast for the last 2 and an a half years. Toast 5
>> was superb. However, Toast 6 is not happening, and in my opinion a
>> rip-off. I am using OSX 10.3.3 and Toast 6.03. I am unable to burn any
>> kind of audio CD. Toast causes my computer to freeze! I have a dual
>> 1.25 GHz G4 dual mirrored powermac with 2GBs of ram! Toast burns my
>> data CD's and DVD's fine but not audio CD's. I threw out preferences,
>> repaired disk permission, ran disk warrior. I tried to call Roxio but
>> they want $35 to make a call to report this possilbe bug. In order to
>> call customer service you have to call Canada and pay long distance
>> charges! Morevover, email support is only good for 90 days! What is
>> Roxio thinking? I will never buy Toast again! However, what
>> application
>> does one buy to burn CD's
>>
>> Maybe we could organize a CD Burning Instruction session soon - to
>> initiate us novices into the arcane secrets?
>> Ilbert
>>
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