Toast also gives you the option of saving audio CDs as disk images (instead of copying them directly to blank CDs) – ideal if you have only one burner or if you plan to make multiple copies of a disc. Then click on the Record button and watch as Toast copies your disc. If you have multiple burners, just choose the drive you want to copy from in the Read From pop-up menu, and choose the drive you want to record with in the pop-up menu that appears at the bottom of the Toast window. But Toast makes duplicating audio CDs easy by letting you copy an audio CD directly from one optical drive to another. And OS X’s Disk Utility won’t let you create an image of an audio disc. You need to rip them as AIFF files (by going to iTunes’ Importing preference pane and changing the Import Using setting to AIFF Encoder) and then burn the resulting files back to a CD-R. With a program such as Roxio’s £42 plus VAT) Toast 6 Titanium, or £85 plus VAT Toast with Jam 6, you can do more with your music and create a greater variety of audio discs.īacking up audio CDs with iTunes is a tedious process. iTunes doesn’t have many advanced features. ITunes is a great tool for ripping, encoding, and managing your music – and it’s free – but even Apple wouldn’t claim that it’s the be-all and end-all for creating audio CDs. ITunes is fine for listening to music and managing your iPod, but if you need more from your audio and burning applications you’ll need to look elsewhere.
