Roxio Toast 10 Titanium 10.0.5

Issues (finally) fixed

Toast Titanium 10 shipped nearly a year ago, and in that year, Roxio has issued five updates. Yet, as I've hinted, until the last update there were serious problems with the program--converting AVCHD and AVCHD Lite files from Sony and Lumix camcorders, respectively, resulted in movies with audio and video tracks out of sync; burning on some Blu-ray drives failed; and CD Spin Doctor was unreliable in many ways. In the course of preparing this review we've worked closely with Roxio to sift through these issues and were happy to see that the 10.0.5 update fixes all of those problems.

Macworld's buying advice

Toast remains a useful and multi-talented application. It now capably tackles a variety of important chores--disc burning (including Blu-ray) beyond the capabilities of the Mac OS, AVCHD conversion, audio capture and tagging, and TiVo transfers. If you plan to take advantage of several of Toast 10's new features, then you might want to consider upgrading from Toast 9. The bugs of the past are now, thankfully, largely water under the bridge, but they took far too long to address. Let's hope that Roxio has learned from this experience and redoubles its efforts to ensure that Toast 11 is less troublesome when it's first released.