[Zortrium]

I've just installed Toast 9 and have been trying to hours to get Spin Doctor to export my broken-up file into individual track files. So far, everything I've tried results either in nothing or a crash. Send to iTunes always causes an immediate crash, dragging tracks from the track listing to the finder either does nothing or causes a crash, save active tracks occasionally does nothing and crashes the rest of the time. This behavior is persistent across restarting the app, restarting my computer, and wiping out the pref file and is basically rendering the app useless.

Also on a less serious but still very annoying note, whenever I disable the 'limit waveform zoom for performance' option and increase the zoom even by a single click over the former limit, the entire application grinds to an unusable speed (taking ~5 seconds to register mouse clicks, even just on interface menus and so forth) and stays that way until I either recheck the zoom limit option or push the zoom down to the former level. I'm on a brand-new 3 GHz iMac with 4 gigs of RAM running the latest version of Leopard, so it's definitely not a hardware issue. I feel like I'm paying for the privilege of being an alpha tester here...SD's interface is really nice, but everything else is driving me nuts. Any advice would be appreciated.

[tsantee]

The problem you are having is not common so I don't know what may be triggering it. Have you installed the Toast 9.0.2 update that includes the latest Spin Doctor? Do you have any Firewire audio devices connected? Have you tried choosing a different location in Preferences for the scratch folder?

My best guess (which could be totally wrong) is there is a system problem that is the cause which only could be fixed by reinstalling the OS. I once had trouble with an earlier version of Spin Doctor and I found that when I booted my Mac from an OS installed on my external Firewire hard drive all worked well. So I just did it that way until I had other reasons to reinstall the OS on my Mac, after which all has worked well.

But my experience may have no relation to yours.