And Toast can even recover files from damaged discs-it can read data from CDs and DVDs that the Finder can’t decipher. Toast now keeps track of which files you’ve stored on which burned discs using the accompanying DiscCatalogMaker RE application, so you can locate content more easily once you’ve offloaded it and put the disc away. Toast installs a small Mac OS X- and Windows-compatible application called Roxio Restore alongside the archived data, so when you want to recover files you’ve backed up to CD or DVD, you don’t need Toast to make it happen-you just need the disc itself. As before, you can span data across more than one CD or DVD. Toast 8 Titanium works better as a file archival and backup system in this new version, too. You can now create DJ-style cross-fades and transitions, process audio you import from analog sources such as vinyl records and cassettes (to remove hisses and pops, for example), normalize volume levels, and trim your tracks. If you use Toast to burn audio CDs, you’ll find a lot of improvements in that area as well-including some you previously had to pay extra for by buying Roxio’s Jam, a separate audio-recording application. You’re writing files directly to the Blu-ray disc in real time, as if it were a 25GB or 50GB hard disk drive. Unlike with conventional DVD-R writing, you’re not copying files to a cache or alias location. Toast Dynamic Writing lets you see a Blu-ray disc in the Finder, so you can copy files from there as well. Toast does indeed offer this support, and Roxio has extended it beyond the confines of the Toast application.

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