Toast 9.0.1

[pendragon]

I downloaded Toast v9.0.1 on 17 March. A quick test indicated all was normal. I had not tested the Video Compression feature, but worried not.

A scan of the reviews on Version Tracker indicated many were having video crashes with Toast 9.0.1.

Then today, I noticed that Toast 9.0.1 was (again?) available for download and that the new download fixed (at least for some) the video crash problem.

Huh? says I. A quick check of the build numbers revealed that the “new” 9.0.1 has an updated/revised build number of 249, vs. the old number of 246.

A quick post on the Roxio forum confirmed the build number quandary with a recommendation that I redownload and reinstall.

That was easily done, but why Roxio did not change the current version to 9.0.2, or at least otherwise announce the fix, well, shame on them (IMNHO). That their customers must additionally verify build numbers, grrrrr.

[Xairbusdriver]

Have not used Toast for many, many years but they have been doing this forever, it seems. Back in the days, they would often 'give away' a version with other software. It was obviously a stripped down version but usually sufficed for minimalist tasks (burn a disc!). But the version numbers were always the same as the full-blown, expensive models. This made for some interesting forums where people would suggest steps to take in version x.y.z and owners of the stripped down version would complain that the steps weren't possible. Somehow Roxio seems to have an aversion to marking versions the way the rest of the world does. Fortunately Apple covered all the uses I even had for Toast and I removed it from my drives!