[oratorio2002]

I am burning a Music Album. 40 hours of music. After the encoding was over, roughly after 10 hours of processor work, Toast tells me there is not enough room to burn the DVD. Would it not be nice to be told BEFORE 10 hours of encoding?

[oratorio2002]

I removed some of the stuff I was burning so that the green bar in the indicator showed that it was not reaching full capacity. I burnt the DVD overnight, same result this morning, not enough space to burn what was encoded. I have burnt quite a few music albums the last few months without encountering this problem. What I cannot say for certain is that this is happening since I installed the last update. Could it be? Shall I go back to the previous version?

[oratorio2002]

My good man Oratorio, if you go to Roxio software update you will notice that they f****d up the 0.2 update, without of course telling you. You waste your valuable time with a defective piece of software and then by yourself you discover that you have to go back to the old version. You become your own tech support, but you do not get paid for it. Hey they get ALL your money and run. Don't you wish there were competition out there so you could choose what works?

This post has been edited by lbissonette: 13 January 2006 - 05:51 AM

[tsantee]

A couple things:
Toast Preferences has a setting to Automatically check for updates. You need to be online when opening Toast for that to work.

Secondly, there is a problem with Toast 7.0.2 and the Music DVD function. It only works properly with Apple Lossless files. Roxio re-posted the 7.0.1 update so that version can be used for making Music DVDs until this gets fixed in another Toast update.

Lastly, I think what happened to you is that you ran out of hard drive space for Toast to complete the process. That's just a guess. If you do have plenty of hard drive space then choose Save as Disc Image instead of clicking the burn button. Toast will go through the encoding and authoring process. When the disc image is written, burn it to DVD using the Image File setting in the Toast Copy window.

[ksbayrox]

This sucks!
I downgraded to 7.01 from 7.02 hoping it would fix the speed problem - where Music DVD's burnt in Toast end up sounding like they're playing in slow motion compared to the original songs - didnt help. This is'nt right - I should have to spend hours compiling a playlist only to have it sound like crap when I burn it. And Roxio should be more forthcoming about their patches causing such problems. But I do want to thank all of you for your advice and would like to know - is there any other solution to this problem? Especially since neither Toast 7.02 or 7.01 seem to be helping. Please let me know.
Thank you for your time
ksbayny

[tsantee]

ksbayrox, on Jan 15 2006, 05:35 AM, said:

This sucks!
I downgraded to 7.01 from 7.02 hoping it would fix the speed problem - where Music DVD's burnt in Toast end up sounding like they're playing in slow motion compared to the original songs - didnt help. This is'nt right - I should have to spend hours compiling a playlist only to have it sound like crap when I burn it. And Roxio should be more forthcoming about their patches causing such problems. But I do want to thank all of you for your advice and would like to know - is there any other solution to this problem? Especially since neither Toast 7.02 or 7.01 seem to be helping. Please let me know.
Thank you for your time
ksbayny

Yours is the first post about any problem with music DVDs in Toast 7.0.1. That makes me suspicious. Is there any chance that 7.0.2 opened by mistake? Or did you save the 7.0.2 project and open it in 7.0.1 without emptying the Roxio Converted Items folder? This would cause Toast to re-use the encoded tracks created by 7.0.2.

As for wasting discs, choose Save as Disc Image from the File menu instead of clicking the burn button. When Toast is done writing the disc image file, select it in the Toast Copy window using the Image File setting. The mounted disc image will play in DVD Player so you can preview it. If all is okay you can burn it to DVD using the Copy window.

[ksbayrox]

tsantee, on Jan 15 2006, 08:11 AM, said:

Yours is the first post about any problem with music DVDs in Toast 7.0.1. That makes me suspicious. Is there any chance that 7.0.2 opened by mistake? Or did you save the 7.0.2 project and open it in 7.0.1 without emptying the Roxio Converted Items folder? This would cause Toast to re-use the encoded tracks created by 7.0.2.

As for wasting discs, choose Save as Disc Image from the File menu instead of clicking the burn button. When Toast is done writing the disc image file, select it in the Toast Copy window using the Image File setting. The mounted disc image will play in DVD Player so you can preview it. If all is okay you can burn it to DVD using the Copy window.

Please don't get suspicious - especially so soon - I've just joined the board and already you're getting suspicious? I am not here to "troll". But besides that bit of negativity, I want to thank you for your advice and I will try the solutions you've recommended. I've seen that you've helped out a lot of people on the board and that's a great thing to do.
Thanks for your time
ksbayny

[tsantee]

ksbayrox, on Jan 15 2006, 12:28 PM, said:

Please don't get suspicious - especially so soon - I've just joined the board and already you're getting suspicious? I am not here to "troll". But besides that bit of negativity, I want to thank you for your advice and I will try the solutions you've recommended. I've seen that you've helped out a lot of people on the board and that's a great thing to do.
Thanks for your time
ksbayny

I apologize for any inference that I was suspicious of you. What I intended was that I'm suspicious that 7.0.1 didn't actually do the encoding of the second music DVD. I appreciate your letting me know that it came across as negativity and I'll be more careful how I express this in the future.

[mrv4]

Glad (sort of) to see it wasn't something I did. I have been using MusicDVD for months, but yesterday was the first time I created one straight from a CD import in Toast 7.02 instead of using Apple Lossless files from an itunes import. Played it back, and thought hmmm...that sounds slow. Sure enough, a track 5.02 sec. long on the CD was 5.33 sec on the DVD!

Fix this ASAP please. We shouldn't have to wait for some regularly scheduled update.

[freshburn]

Use 7.0.1

[oratorio2002]

freshburn, on Jan 27 2006, 09:53 AM, said:

Use 7.0.1

I did go back to 7.0.1 and had NO trouble. Like anyone else waiting for the next update.

[mrv4]

freshburn, on Jan 27 2006, 09:53 AM, said:

Use 7.0.1

Yes, I did that obviously after a day of frustration and reading this thread. You could have emailed users about the problem instead of letting everyone find out the hard way!? You are wasting your user's time and the money they spend on blank media.

[palnudb]

tsantee, on Jan 13 2006, 08:10 AM, said:

A couple things:
Toast Preferences has a setting to Automatically check for updates. You need to be online when opening Toast for that to work.

Secondly, there is a problem with Toast 7.0.2 and the Music DVD function. It only works properly with Apple Lossless files. Roxio re-posted the 7.0.1 update so that version can be used for making Music DVDs until this gets fixed in another Toast update.

Lastly, I think what happened to you is that you ran out of hard drive space for Toast to complete the process. That's just a guess. If you do have plenty of hard drive space then choose Save as Disc Image instead of clicking the burn button. Toast will go through the encoding and authoring process. When the disc image is written, burn it to DVD using the Image File setting in the Toast Copy window.

I burned a music DVD with v7.0.1 it has 44 playlists (albums[beatles]). I had them imported to iTunes as 192K mp3s. I used the TV theme anyway it starts a plays fine the farther you get into it the more screwwy it plays if I pick an album farther into the disc it stutters and or just stops the discs. All album playlists where drag and dropped from Itunes.

Any Ideas?
Do I have to convert all these files to AAC?
Is there any way to make it shuffle all the tracks on the disc not just each playlist.

TIA
palnudb

[fingerman]

We have the information about the Music DVD listed on the software updates page for Toast 7 - you can't get to the download link without first going to this page.

Emailing all users isn't an option - sending unsolicited email to people who have opted not to receive them is against the privacy policy.

[mrv4]

fingerman, on Feb 4 2006, 04:31 PM, said:

We have the information about the Music DVD listed on the software updates page for Toast 7 - you can't get to the download link without first going to this page.

Emailing all users isn't an option - sending unsolicited email to people who have opted not to receive them is against the privacy policy.

Well, you could send emails to persons that didn't opt-out. Also, you could just send an update that fixes the problem. How hard is to fix anyway? What's the hold-up? I'd like it soon, please, because I can't use either 7.0.1 or 7.0.2 as they each have their own bugs for Music DVD.