Review by Jerry Saperstein

I have an occasional love and often hateful relationship with Roxio products on PC and Mac. Way back when, Roxio was owned by Adaptec and its utilities were daily necessities when working with SCSI drives (an interface most people never heard of and are happier for). The Roxio brand covered their line of optical media utilities, some of which were horribly designed.

Toast, back in the day, was among the very first and for a while the best CD burning utilities for the Mac. It wasn’t problem-free, but it had more manageable problems than the others.

Over the years, the product has suffered from feature bloat and incompatibilities with the Mac OS.

Its relevance today is questionable as manufacturers no longer include optical devices on their computers and flash drives and cloud delivery take over.

So, do you need Roxio Toast? Probably not. There are many free and lower cost, though more limited, utilities out there, particularly for burning optical media.

Does it work? Yes, sometimes. Updates to your OS can prevent it from working.

My advice: take a really hard look at your needs, your wallet and Toasts promised capabilities.

Jerry