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[ffooky]

Like most people, I try to fill up as much space as possible when burning a disc but there's usually a significant amount that is effectively wasted. My suggestion is for a facility within Toast to calculate automatically the remaining space and create sufficient par2 files to use it up.

For those not familiar with par2 files, they originated on USENET to compensate for mishaps in the uploading/propagating process. The data for which a set is being created is scanned and divided into a number of blocks and par2 files, each the same size as these blocks, are created. If any of the blocks in the original data become damaged, corrupted or otherwise unreadable it can be replaced with any one of the par2 blocks.

The par2 creation process would likely take a fair time but a few extra minutes spent before burning a disc would be well worth it if they increased the likelihood of the data being usable for longer.