To save files as data

(so you can just reload them from CD later)

1.Click on the Toast icon in the dock

2.at the top of the Toast window there are four sections - Data, Audio, Video, Copy. Click on Data.

3.in the formats side-bar make sure it's set to Mac & PC

4.(optional) at the bottom of the Toast window click on "New Disc'

5.(optional) change the name of the disc to something better than "My disc"

6.drag the files you wan to copy to the blank area in the middle of the Toast window

7.(optional) add folders to help organise thing if you want

8.click on the red button at the bottom left of the Toast window. Don't worry if it says DVD and you want to burn a CD (or vice versa)

The burn dialogue box appears

Making an Audio CD to play in a standard CD player

The process is more or less the same except that you click on the Audio section at the top of the Toast window

Drag the audio files you want to copy to the blank area in the middle of the toast window

Shuffle the order you want them to play in until you are happy with it.

The numbers in the Pause column determine the pause between tracks (specifically the pause before each track plays).

Hit the red button

The burn dialogue box appears

Making a copy of a disc
You can also copy discs – Data CDs, Audio CDs, DVDs

1.Put the disc you want to copy in the drive

2.Open Toast

3.Select 'Copy' from the four sections at the top

4.If you are copying a commercial dual layer DVD to a DVD-R select 'Fit to DVD compression' in the sidebar – but note that you won't be able to copy most commercial DVDs since they have copy protection.

The burn dialogue box appears

The Burn Dialogue

•Under 'Basic' put the write speed to the same as the media you are using, or, to be safe, you can use a step slower. For example if you are burning to a 56x CD-R you might select 48x as the burn speed. Set the number of copies you want to make.

•Under advanced you have a couple more options. If you select Write Session you'll be able to add more material to the disc later - say you've only got a few MB you want to burn and you use 'Write Disc' you won't be able to add anything more to the disc, but if you use 'Write Session' you will be able to. But if you are burning an audio CD to play in an ordinary CD player you should always select 'Write Disc'.

•If you check verify data the computer will compare the new disc to the source files and tell you if there were any errors in the copying. Depending on the media and the drive you might get as many as 1% to 5% of discs that have copy errors. Some of the duds might work OK, some might not.

•Usually you won't want to bother with simulation mode, so leave it blank.

•Make sure 'Buffer Underrun Prevention' is always ticked.

Hit Record, and the computer will do it's stuff.