Did you try setting your SCSI ID to 3 or 5? Those are the defaults for audio transfer.

There are two pretty cool CD burning utilities out there that might help with some of these problems. Adaptec makes Jam which is made specifically for burning audio tracks to CD. …

First the CD drive you want to copy from must be able to do "Digital Audio Extraction" at high speed or you will suffer "Buffer Underruns" and will have generated a "coaster" inste…

I use Astarte CD-Copy 2.0 to extract any track from cd, weather it be data or audio. Once tracks are saved you then drag them on top of toast and it does the rest. This has a minor…

Toast 3.5 is not the latest version. An updater for version 3.5.5 is available on their website. If you have your manual for Toast, try looking at pgs. 149-153.

There is another CD recording software package called Discribe. It is made by a company called <a href="http://www.charismac.com">CharisMac</a>. If you are interested…

There are a couple of different command sets which CD-R drives use. The most standard one is the Multimedia Command Set (MMC). Another is a command set originated by JVC. With d…

Here is a possible work-around for you. Open Simple Text and select your audio files on the audio CD. The Open button will become Convert. Select Convert and it will give you vari…

I've been making audio compilations for years, and by far the best extraction software I've used is the Toast Audio Extractor program that comes with Toast itself. As much as I'd l…

I recently purchased a 4X/8X CDR from LaCie and included with the package was a floppy with software related to Teac drives. Check the LaCie site to see if it is offered as a downl…

Jamer... you have to close the disk from the Direct CD control panel before other computers can read it. Ohh and as for the Teac drivers those are only for the 4x8 drives... I ha…

Adaptec just released Toast 3.5.6 which includes support for the Teac CD-R56S. Go check it out.

For your convienience, here's the list from Toast's Read Me file detailing drives that do NOT support Toast's Direct Audio Copy Feature. This should help those folks looking to pur…

Help! For some reason when I try to transfer an album's worth of songs from itunes onto my ipod (mini) they are appearing in alphabetical order and not the order of the actual albu…

When you say they are appearing in alphabetical order, you mean they appear that way on your iPod when viewed by artist (not on a playlist)? Do the songs have anything for their "t…

Thanks for the reply. When I copy and paste them from my download playlist (which is in the correct order) they appear on my ipod playlist and my ipod in alphabetical order instead…

only the album playlist is in album order, any other browsing will alphabetize (by song, by artist, any category)

That's not true.

You could be right. I looked at my iPod mini just now, It has about 13 album playlists on it. When I look at playlists, each one they are in the order of the albums. But when I loo…

Go to "Get Info" when you are in your library, and enter the correct track number for all of your ripped songs.

As indicated on macintouch.com, there is a batter excahnge program for the MBP. Apple is pretty quiet about the reasons, but says this is not safety related. https://support.appl…

Thanks. I've requested for my new battery.

Spent 30 mins on the phone last Friday trying to convince an Apple rep. that I couldn't fix my battery swelling by resetting the PMU! Glad Apple has finally admitted the problem.

Why can't Apple ever make a battery that they have to recall?

Battery swelling?? In fact my battery has a little 'give' in it. i.e. it can be slightly moved whilst it is in place. I did always that that the battery life was pretty crap. I thi…