In addition to supporting Apple’s latest OS, the software also gains improvements in many key areas.Īccording to development studio Roxio, Toast Titanium 11.0.4 resolves several compatibility issues related to Mac OS X v10.7, the newest version of Apple’s desktop operating system. Any later conversions of a music file that is in a lossy will introduce artifacts very rapidly.Īudio pros listen to, and work with, even higher resolutions than our 16 bit, CD quality audio.The popular burning utility Toast Titanium has been updated to fully support OS X 10.7 Lion. In only the recent years we have the ability to listen to our itunes music over higher resolution home audio systems (mine M&K 1600's + 12" Velodyne Servo Sub), it seems short sighted to save a little bit of money on storage drives and ruin all the source material by MP3 coding, which throws away 90% of the bits! AAC sounds very good, better than MP3, depending on sample rate etc, but still won't hold up to later audio format conversions. A matching subwoofer can be purchased later and added to the bookshelf/satellite mains, when the budget permits.Īnd a (real) subwoofer they would have a better benchmark of the kind of sound quality that's available for playback on their very own computer. ![]() But better drivers, crossover s and rigid cabinets do have a cost.Īlso, one _must_ have a "real" subwoofer to hear the full range that's recorded on most kinds of music. One doesn't have to spend a fortune, there are descent bookshelf speakers in the $300 range, maybe a little less. Maybe if a few more "computer" users gave their favorite playlists a listen, either in a good sound showroom on an adequately powered clean receiver (separates) driving a pair of higher resolution, quality bookshelf "home audio" speakers, they may be pleasantly surprised how good old music can sound! Please do your ears a favor and listen to some really good/expensive audio equipment, that isn't a "computer speaker". Storage is just so cheap in the last couple of years and lossless files sound so good, I think the value of one's CD sourced iTunes collection deserve a greater value, Losing 150 GB of ripped CDs would be heart breaking and huge undertaking to have to start all over, when for ~$200 +30 tax/ship, I need not worry about any data lossless!Ĭost $200 or about the same price as as 13 $15 CD's. I decided it's better to backup sooner rather than later. So, I just bought the ready to go Seagate, obsolete 7002.8, 16mb 400 combo drive, which will work just fine for itunes/backup/DVD images and I won't lose EVERYTHING on my HD, due to some malfunction, while trying to make up my mind the BEST HD to buy, afraid of not getting the Right One for the future! ANd I'm still be stuck trying to figure out the best thing. but that would have cost a lot more, which I couldn't afford. Īctually, i should have bought a 400GB SATA/Fw drive and been ready for in the future for a very fast HD connection, when I move everything over to a MacIntel. all these new projects for the very first time by reading posts and tutorials. But on top of learning how to partition format & use Super Duper to back up my iTunes library and main HD, then trouble shoot Quicktime 7.1.1 breaking Toast 7's ability to convert apple lossless to AIFF when burning cds. (I know I should have bought the drive to get the 5 year warranty and separate case to save a little more. Just bought a new 400GB Seagate USB/FW HD. "Just connect the FW800 ports (say between drive 1 and 2), and on the last one run out with the FW400." so for daisy chaining it appears one can. I already have the one FW 400/800/USB 200GB drive. ![]() LaCie d2 Hard Drive Extreme with Triple Interface With either Sliverkeeper or Dantz retrospect backup software. ![]() The Lacie triple interface 250 GB for around $220 looks promising. Perhaps just adding another external drive for backup might be smart/secure plan, rather than dealing with mass disc burnings. I do have all my music on an external 200GB Seagate/OWC Drive, but was warned a HD can fail at anytime and data is not really "safe" until copied to some kind of permanent media.Įdit: Been researching the Silverkeeper and adding another external HD option. Suppose I could do some experiments, but it just seems so much easier to ask someone who's actually done an itunes library back up before.Īnything else you think I should know before embarking upon an iTunes backup? Guess I'll just keep it simple and use the Toast "Mac Only" setting. Thank you, good info, didn't know disc spanning only worked with the "Mac" data selection.
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