Warning about Toast with Jam

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Giant waste of money!!! If you don't want to read my story just know that I highly recommend that you stay away from Toast with Jam 6!! My Story: I recently purchased Toast With Jam 6 because people have told me that it can burn glass ready masters. I followed up on this claim and couldn't find anything about it anywhere. I contacted Roxio customer service and asked, "Is Jam capable of burning glass ready master cds?" the reply I received was, "We recommend you purchase Toast with Jam 6." Never answered my question. I looked online everywhere, even in the Toast with Jam 6 user manuals, the only information I could find was, (quote from user manual, most helpful information in the manual) "Toast with Jam is award-winning software that helps you make CDs or DVDs." It seemed to me all along that Roxio's marketing department was trying to hide something in the "Awards." Completely ignoring my better instincts I bought the software and since, my experience with it has been HORRIBLE!! It set my ongoing recording project back well over 10 hours. Burned several bad audio CDs and cost over 150$. I repeat, don't buy this software!!
 
also, I forgot to mention: I still don't know whether it can actually burn glass ready masters or not.
 
That is true, but I'm looking to burn a glass READY master. A CD that can be sent to the pressing facility and is of high enough quality that it can be used to make the Glass Master that you are talking about. I guess it would be called the "pre master" from that article you attached.
 
Gotcha. I must have misread the question. What you are looking for, then, is a program that can burn to Red Book standard. CD Architect and other similar programs will do this. I'm not sure about the one you mention.
 
Not sure about your experience with this software, but you are looking to make a Redbook Standard CD. Scrubs and his link are correct.
 
I think CD Architect is the least expensive Red Book (i.e., "glass master") software around, and it runs fine on my computer.

Note that, by itself, it will not guarantee good masters. Even with all the hype about "perfect sound forever," errors occur, and a certain percentage of blank CD media are faulty. To check for that you need a test program to find errors. I have a Plextor Premium CD burner that comes with Plextools software that allows you to test the CD before you send it off. In my experience a lot of the CD replicator outfits don't check for errors before they burn, and you don't want 1000 coasters.
 
I think you need Green eggs and Ham to do that with Toast and Jam.

Oddly enough, I'm suddenly quite hungry :confused:
 
corban said:
finding out this warning was about software made me very relieved
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Yeah, toast with jam is yummy stuff. I wouldn't want to live without it. :D
 
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