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Burn two discs at once with Toast Titanium 6 Apps
I've just successfully burned two DVDs at once on the same Mac -- something that might be of interest to people who have two DVD or CD burners. I have a laptop with an internal Matshita DVD-R UJ825, and an external Pioneer DVR-108 in a Firewire enclosure. Here's how I did it:
  1. Simply duplicate the "Toast 6 Titanium" application (cmd-D) and rename it to something like "Toast 6 Titanium 2."
  2. Launch both copies of Toast, one after the other.
  3. Ensure each copy has selected a different DVD burner. You can toggle the selection by clicking the name of the burner at the bottom of the window.
  4. Burn as normal! eg. Drop one or set of data (eg. VIDEO_TS folder) onto one running copy of Toast and something else onto the other copy of Toast.
This technique burned and verified both discs OK for me. The only catch might be the speed of the hard drive in keeping up if you try this with two fast burners. Two 8X burners gives you a 16X effective burn, which is about 22MB/sec. This should be OK for an internal drive or FW800, but might be too much for an external FW400. Two burners running at 16X is 32X effective, or 44MB, which is probably too much for anything other than an internal hard drive. But getting sustained 16X is fantasy land at the moment anyway, let alone real 8X...
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Burn two discs at once with Toast Titanium 6
Authored by: olivermomo on Mar 21, '05 11:06:39AM

This has been a documented feature of Toast for years. See Roxio knowledgebase article # ET5000058.



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Burn two discs at once with Toast Titanium 6
Authored by: macslut on Mar 21, '05 11:44:11AM

It has been documented for years. I even recall that it was more prominently displayed on their Website when dual bay Macs came out.

I've been able to do this with up to 4 CD/DVD drives with no problem. I'd assume you could do more, but that's all I got.

It should also be noted that many single-mission applications can be duplicated to accomplish two missions at the same time.



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Burn two discs at once with Toast Titanium 6
Authored by: ptakeuchi on Mar 21, '05 12:01:16PM

I, too, have been doing this for awhile, using up to 3 simultaneous burners (CDR). It is very convenient. I rename my Toast apps Toast1, Toast2, Toast3 and change their icons. It would be nice to be able to hack the duped applications so their interface reflected the change too, instead of having the app name "Toast Titanium" in all three. Is there some easy app editor like ResEdit to do this for OSX? I have never tried this app duping with photoshop, but sometimes I'd love to be able to work in two separate application spaces, particularly when I'm saving large 200Mb files and it takes 30 seconds of editing time away.



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Burn two discs at once with Toast Titanium 6
Authored by: designr on Mar 21, '05 12:53:24PM

Our users all use Toast A, Toast B, Toast C, etc. (mostly for DVD creation).



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Burn two discs at once with Toast Titanium 6
Authored by: phatmatt on Mar 21, '05 04:11:32PM
It would be nice to be able to hack the duped applications so their interface reflected the change too, instead of having the app name "Toast Titanium" in all three.
Normally to change this you would you interface builder included with the developer tools, but I can't find the menu. Instead, how about changing the logo used in the main window. In the finder, right click the toast application and select show package contents. Open the file Content/Resources/RoxioLogo.png in an image editor - and change to your liking.

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Burn two discs at once with Toast Titanium 6
Authored by: jmdevaney on Mar 21, '05 12:28:02PM

I use this all the time with Microsoft Remote Desktop Client... works great for connecting to multiple terminal servers.

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Burn two discs at once with Toast Titanium 6
Authored by: phatmatt on Mar 21, '05 04:14:17PM

I use this for remote desktop too, but wouldn't it be nice if they actually allowed 2 connections in the same program? I think there could be a really good interface for supporting connections to multiple computers. Plus I hate leaving my dock filled with two of the same icon.



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Burn two discs at once with Toast Titanium 6
Authored by: mattinsyd on Mar 21, '05 06:39:28PM
Use RDC Launcher. It will launch multiple instances of Remote Desktop Connection without having to copy the application.

But I too would wish the application handled multiple simultaneous connections.

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Sustained speeds are for DVD, not CD-R
Authored by: ryangreenberg on Mar 21, '05 07:53:44PM

Keep in mind that this hint gives the speeds you need to write DVDs.

> Two 8X burners gives you a 16X effective burn, which is about 22MB/sec.

To write CDs, you need much lower sustained speeds. Each "x" in a CD-R write speed is 150k/sec, so an 8x drive requires only 1200kb/sec, or about 1.2MB/sec.



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Burn two discs at once with Toast Titanium 6
Authored by: elmimmo on Mar 22, '05 04:03:08AM

The "duplicate icon for launching two copies of same app" has been repeated until boredom at macosxhints.com.

Worst of all, there is no need at all of cluttering your desktop when it is not necessary to duplicate the app to launch several instances of it.

To know how to truely Launch multiple instances of any given application (instead of launching several identical but separate apps, which is what you are doing), follow the link to another macosxhints.com's hint.

It'd be nice if someone built an AppleScript dropplet to do what that hint describes under the hood, though.



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Burn two discs at once with Toast Titanium 6
Authored by: sidkid on Apr 05, '05 06:53:19PM

has anyone successfully tested this with toast 6?



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Burn two discs at once with Toast Titanium 6
Authored by: GlowingApple on Apr 05, '05 07:48:37PM
Try Quicksilver (http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/). I can open Quicksilver (via my handy Command + Space hotkey), type Toast, hit tab, type "another" (for Launch Another Copy) and hit enter. It will run another copy of any application (at least every one that I have tried). It's also great for quick access to all your applications without cluttering your Dock/Desktop.

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Burn two discs at once with Toast Titanium 6
Authored by: rspress on Mar 22, '05 11:51:18AM

I picked up Dragon Burn 4 for 10 bucks from NTI and I use it more than I use Toast now. In dragon burn you just create a new layout and you can burn as many discs as you have burners by creating new layouts with just the one application.

I burned two DVD's and 8X speed and they finished within one second of each other.



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Burn two discs at once with Toast Titanium 6
Authored by: luomat on Jul 07, '07 07:36:52PM

This still works well with 7.1.2.

I used it tonight on my MacBook and an external drive. I realize there are other ways of doing this, but I doubt any is as simple as duplicating the app and firing two copies.



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Burn two discs at once with Toast Titanium 6
Authored by: DJ Black Adam on May 08, '10 10:38:09AM

Best way is the use Nero with Parallels 5 running Win XP on Snow Leopard, and you can do it with as many external CD/DVD drives you wish! I'd suggest having 4GB of ram or higher to run another os at the same time with no hiccups. I use 2GB but I sometimes have a short wait time on the loading of things.

Someday there will be a real mac alternative to toast or this option will be avail soon, as the mac's popularity is as high now as it's ever been and a lot more is already available since the internal parts are intel and os swappable now.

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