8.0.1 update breaks 8.0 audio cd files

[BradPDX]

It has probably been said here, but the titles of posts make it hard to tell...

 

I bought Toast 8.0 a couple of months back for my new iMac C2D machine, and it works well. Automatic updates detected 8.0.1 and it was installed yesterday. While it seems to work just fine, I noticed that audio .DISC files I had created only days before with version 8.0 would no longer open. Toast will launch, but displays an empty browser.

 

I can create new DISC files that work just fine.

 

I am fortunate in that I don't have many DISC files because I am a newer Toast user. However, if I had a lot of them I would be quite upset! There is no reason that Toast 8.0.1 should do this - even if the new version brings new functions and file formats, it should ABSOLUTELY be able to interpret files made with the previous release.

 

This responsibility goes DOUBLE when one considers that this is a free update of the same version of the product - 8.0 - not even a first digit upgrade (e.g., 7 -> 8). Simply inexcusable.

 

I work in software product development, and my team would be strung up on the nearest tree if we did this!

[tsantee]

Here's another thread on this issue:

http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?showtopic=18824

 

When Toast 8 came out several users posted they where very upset that their audio CD .disc files created in Toast 6 and 7 could not open in Toast 8. This is because there are many new audio CD settings in Toast 8 and that info was lacking in the earlier .disc files.

 

Apparently Roxio decided this was enough of a problem for users that they needed to resolve it with an update. However, the fix also means that audio CD .disc files created in Toast 8.0 can't open in 8.0.1.

 

On one hand Roxio's engineers listened to user complaints and made a big change in how Toast 8.0.1 supports Toast 7 audio CD .disc files. On the other hand they upset the early purchasers of Toast 8 who now have to keep the 8.0 version around to open their .disc files. Hopefully over time more of the former will be pleased than of the latter who will be angry. Of course, some are now doubly angry.

[eddyboy]

Here's another thread on this issue:

http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?showtopic=18824

 

When Toast 8 came out several users posted they where very upset that their audio CD .disc files created in Toast 6 and 7 could not open in Toast 8. This is because there are many new audio CD settings in Toast 8 and that info was lacking in the earlier .disc files.

 

Apparently Roxio decided this was enough of a problem for users that they needed to resolve it with an update. However, the fix also means that audio CD .disc files created in Toast 8.0 can't open in 8.0.1.

 

On one hand Roxio's engineers listened to user complaints and made a big change in how Toast 8.0.1 supports Toast 7 audio CD .disc files. On the other hand they upset the early purchasers of Toast 8 who now have to keep the 8.0 version around to open their .disc files. Hopefully over time more of the former will be pleased than of the latter who will be angry. Of course, some are now doubly angry.

 

I sure hope that they fix this! I just ran into the problem and have two audio CDs that I was in the midst of compiling when I upgraded to 8.0.1. There are a lot of crossfades that I don't want to have to set up all over again.

 

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[freshburn]

It will never ever be changed. You will have to use Toast 8.0 if you want to burn that document.