Roxio Toast 6.1 update disables iTunes integration

May 11, 2005

Yet more Apple news this morning. Although I have never had the experience of using a Mac, I am intrigued at recent press reports about Tiger, the new OS that's just out, it sounds like quite an operating system! However, according to the Mac Observer, Roxio, Inc. needed to update Toast Titanium 6 in order to support Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Yet for some strange reason, after "discussion" with Apple, they have disabled the ability to burn CDs or DVDs with music bought from Apple's iTunes Music Store.

Brought to the attention of The Mac Observer by readers late Tuesday night, buried in the release notes of version 6.1 reads, "following discussions with Apple, this version will no longer allow customers to create audio CDs, audio DVDs, or export audio to their hard drive using purchased iTunes music store content."

Other updates or fixes to version 6.1 include resolving issues of custom hybrid format authoring, Mac volume format fixes related to Tiger compatibility, resolution of issues related to DV encoding with Tiger, and correct recording to DVD-R dual layer media for DVD-Video, among many.

It would be interesting to know the logic behind this
decision. You can read the release notes by following the link on this page, if you are curious about what else is changed in Toast.

Source: Mac Observer