Jam 6.0.3 review

Jam 6, winner of the 2004 Macworld Best of Show awards, combines the newest version of Roxio's best-selling burning software for the Mac OS, with software to produce the best sounding CDs and DVDs.

License: Comercialware OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: Roxio Buy Now Price: $169.00 Updated: 11 May 2005

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Jam 6, winner of the 2004 Macworld Best of Show awards, combines the newest version of Roxio's best-selling burning software for the Mac OS, with software to produce the best sounding CDs and DVDs.

Now anyone can create discs like a pro, with powerful tools such as Jam 6, Peak? Express, and Hollywood-style Dolby? Digital sound.

Toast with Jam 6 includes the entire Toast 6 Titanium suite. For over ten years, Toast has been the standard of excellence for burning. Now, the best is even better.

Toast’s Universal Converters support a wide variety of input formats:
• Audio – any QuickTime audio format, including but not limited to, AIFF, MP3, WAV, AAC, Dolby AC3, AU, MOV, etc.
• Video – any QuickTime video format, including but not limited to, AVI, MOV, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, DV, VOB, muxed content, iMovie project, Final Cut Pro/Express, etc.
• Image – any QuickTime image format, including but not limited to, BMP, GIF, JPG, PICT, PDF, PSD, PNG, TIFF, etc.

Toast supports the most output formats of any Mac OS recording software:
• Data – Mac only, Mac/PC hybrid, ISO, UDF, Custom Hybrid, Mac Volume
• Audio – Audio CD, MP3 Disc, DVD Music Album, Enhanced Audio CD, Mixed Mode
• Video – Video CD, Super Video CD, DVD with PCM or Dolby Digital, miniDVD
• Copy – CD/DVD copy, Toast/3rd party image copy, Bin/Cue copy, CD-ROM XA, CD-I
• Disc Types - CD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD-RAM, DLT
• Recorders – Most internal and external CD and DVD recorders, including combos

Toast with Jam 6 supports special burn settings, such as CD-TEXT writing, complete PQ subcodes, Disc At Once (DAO) recording, and Buffer Underrun Prevention options.

DVDs created with Toast with Jam 6 adhere 100% to the official DVD specifications, and are tested with Hollywood standard certification tools to verify DVD player compatibility.

Here are some key features of "Jam":
Automatically transfer your DV camcorder footage to a VCD, SVCD or DVD.
Convert your LPs and casettes to CD.
Turn your still photos into stunning movies with pan and zoom motion effects, crossfades, and soundtracks.
Create DVDs with over 36 hours of high fidelity music.
Add Hollywood-style Dolby Digital sound to your DVD, and fit over 2 hours of video.
Create DJ-style cd mixes with smooth crossfades.

What's New:
Following discussions with Apple, this version will no longer allow customers to create audio CDs or export audio to their hard drive using purchased iTunes music store content.
Resolves an issue where certain ISRC codes could not be entered.
Resolves an issue where Jam fails to launch when audio output is set to 96 kHz.
Resolves an issue with images failing to be mounted or unmounted on Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger).

Requirements:
Power Macintosh G3 or later (G4 or higher recommended for faster encoding)
Mac OS X v10.2 or later, including Panther (installing latest updates is recommended)
200 MB of free hard disk space (more required for video and audio authoring)
QuickTime 6 or later
CD or DVD recorder (optional, if using ToastAnywhere recorder sharing)
Recordable CDs or DVDs.