Mount .sd2f to desktop

[Arthur Vandelay]

Does anyone else have a problem with MOUNTING a disk image (.sd2f file) to the desktop? It is a selection in the UTILITIES menu but Toast 16 is unable to mount an image.  

I brought this up as an inquiry to technical support and they informed me that Toast no longer supports the .sd2f file format.

I cannot understand this because the default output when saving a disk image in Toast 16 is .sd2f.  If this is indeed the case, shouldn't the application save CD audio discs to an alternate image file?
 

[theoldarchiver]

According to old posts in the forums, I think you have to go back to at least an earlier release of Toast 11 (2011), before 11.1 even, to get that capability. Maybe even with a matching older version of Mac OS X (10.6/10.7). I’m sure the old thread on the change is still in the archives here somewhere. A variety of audio apps can still open .Sd2f as one long track, though. iTunes will open it as one long track. Toast can read it back as an Audio CD with separate tracks. Sound Designer was from Avid, so maybe Pro Tools can handle it, too?

While it is now not supposed to work on this type of file, menu Utilities>Mount Disc Image>Foo.S2df  did just open as a mounted volume for me, with my test file. [macOS 10.12.6] Huh, now I’m stumped. More testing is needed.

[theoldarchiver]

20 hours ago, Arthur Vandelay said:

also cannot understand why the default file type when saving a disc image is .sd2f.

Audio CD is a bit special, as the disc does not have a file system. There’s ‘tracks’ and ‘subchannels’, but no directory or files. 
You could save as Bin/Cue, but I don’t think that would be any better for your needs.
Another image format for Audio CD is DDP (Disc Description Protocol), which is what the professionals use for replication. 

20 hours ago, Arthur Vandelay said:

Any suggestions on how I can assemble flac files from services like PledgeMusic, have it verified by CDDB (or similar service) and saved as an image that can be mounted to the desktop as a playable CD? 

Why would you want a virtual Audio CD, when you seem to want a playlist for a software player? iTunes could serve that purpose, even in lossless format (not flac, tho'). There are automated batch taggers e.g. XLD or MusicBrainz Picard that you could try.

[Arthur Vandelay]

This does help greatly.  Because I am also running 10.12.6 and I get the error message when doing the same thing (Mount Disc Image).  I believe this narrows it down to something local on my system rather than the Toast 16 application.  I've tried a new install going back to version 11 as well and got the same message.  I tried the install on a separate Mac which has never had Toast installed and got the same error message so I started to wonder . . . also cannot understand why the default file type when saving a disc image is .sd2f.  Cannot figure this thing out!

Any suggestions on how I can assemble flac files from services like PledgeMusic, have it verified by CDDB (or similar service) and saved as an image that can be mounted to the desktop as a playable CD? 

[Arthur Vandelay]

I catalog my music using an application named Music Collector and it scans an inserted (or desktop mounted) disc to enter the pertinent information into a database.  I have a number of older .sd2f files that I need to catalog.  I can also enter it by title, but it is so much more efficient if it can be mounted.  So it's more that I am trying to cut some corners!

Since you have been able to mount an image to the desktop in 10.12.6, then I may attempt to clean install Sierra to see where the problem lies.  I have used XLD but not Picard, so I will try that as well.  Thank you very much for the information!

[jazzbuph]

This has been an on and off issue with Toast for years. There was a long period about 5 years ago where the mounting of sd files stopped working. After a couple of versions and lots of complaints, it suddenly was restored again.

I use toast mainly to back up CDs by burning to disc, and then mounting them later. This is also important because if I no longer have the CD, it's the only way to import into iTunes and get the track retrieval and stuff like that. 

I'm now unable to mount discs again with v16, even though it worked up until a few months ago. I'm still on High Sierra, so going to Mojave is not the issue. So I don't know if it's an update in High Sierra, or an update in Toast, that started the problem/removed the feature. 

BUT IT"S A BIG DEAL! Without this, I simply won't be using Toast anymore. And it screws me unless other tools will mount them and allow for the track information rather than just a single huge file. 

I simply don't understand why they remove this feature...and,, as noted, when burning to disc creates an sdII file! It doesn't make sense. 

Roxio! Get it together!!!

[Arthur Vandelay]

Unfortunately, there are so many other issues with v.16 and v.17 that I’ve had to move on to other ways to archive and burn discs, since Corel/Roxio seems to have lost touch with what is important to its users.

I was able to resolve the issue, but not without some serious effort and time dedication. I completely erased my root drive (SSD) and re-installed OSX 10.9 (yes, Mavericks). Then updated to Yosemite, El Capitan, then Sierra, checking to see if SD2F files would mount at each install (which they did).

I am now on Mojave (10.14.4) and the function to mount SD2F files works consistently.  No idea what is or where the issue lies, but there is a MacOS systemic issue that causes this with Toast. Even though I had everything backed up, it was a long and difficult road to get my system back to where I wanted it.  Proceed with caution, but in the end, this seems to work.  

Good luck!

[Bachelor boB]

Solution below copied from elsewhere.

I have verified that this resolves the issue under MacOS 10.11.6 (El Capitan).  I had Toast 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, and 17 installed.  Now just 17 *with* 'Toast It & Mount It' (apparently essential to resolve prior inability to mount Sd2f and Toast disc images).

 

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Thank you for contacting Corel Technical Support.

If the procedure on my previous email did not work, please try to do the following.

Quit Toast, trash the entire Toast 14 Titanium folder (located in Finder > Applications), then do the same for any previous versions of Toast, if you still have any installed. You need to remove all previous versions of Toast to avoid possible conflicts. Next is to check for the files listed below. If you see any of them, trash them:

"Roxio Toast Prefs"
“com.roxio.ScreenCapture.plist”
"com.roxio.toast.plist"
"com.roxio.Toast.LSSharedFileList.plist"
"com.roxio.MyDVD.plist"
"com.roxio.videoplayer.plist"
“com.roxio.videoplayer.LSSharedFileList.plist”
“com.corel.Toast-Audio-Assistant.plist”

You should be able to locate these files in ~/Library/Preferences. On the taskbar at the top, click on "Go", and select "Go To Folder...". Type in "~/Library/Preferences", without the quotes. Locate the above files in the Preferences folder that comes up and delete them. You must use this procedure because this particular Library folder is hidden from view, and this is how to open hidden folders.

Once the procedure is complete, reboot your Mac, then reinstall your Toast 14 Titanium. Install any available updates.

Let me know how it goes.

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any further questions.

Regards,
Johnston
Corel Technical Support Services

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I discovered that you must also install the "Toast It and Mount It" extra or you won't be able to mount disc images in Toast. Remember that when you do the install/register.