Toast Won't Take iTunes Purchased Music

I would like to clarify a few things mentioned by the other posters.

Using iTunes, you can burn purchased music (protected AAC) in the same playlist 7 times to Audio CD. See the paragraph starting with 'Other things to check' in this article.

Roxio dropped support (had to) for protected content and did that starting with Toast 6.1.
See the version history of Toast 6 here.

Older versions of Toast might burn protected contents, but only if you have installed Quicktime versions prior to 7.
QT 7 also prevents burning protected contents, other than with iTunes (or possibly other Apple applications).

M

17' iMac fp 800 MHz 768 MB RAM Mac OS X (10.3.9) Several ext. HD (backup and data)

I am not a big expert, but I know that all the files you buy from the Music Store are protected files (.m4b extension). You can't burn protected files (I have Toast 6 Titanium). You can play them on iTunes, but can't burn 'em w/ iTunes either.

You can only share files with other users (like on a LAN, not over a P2P network or anything like that), and you are limited to sharing w/ only 2 or 3 other computers.

A little clarification:

iTunes will let you burn protected AAC files (like what you buy from the Apple iTunes Music Store) either as compressed AAC files or as expanded audio CDs. The only restriction iTunes places is that you can't burn more than 10 copies of a playlist containing protected AACs as an audio CD without changing the playlist .

I have an older version of Toast. It burns data CDs with compressed protected AACs no problem. Can't remember if it handles audio cds with m4ps.

Jim

Well. I did say that I wasn't an expert. 😉

Oh yeah. .m4p is the ext. for protected music files.
.m4b is for protected audio book files (the "b" being for "bookmarkable" I assume). So I wasn't that wrong. 😝

I obviously didn't know that you could indeed burn protected files w/ iTunes though. That is a useful thing to know. *thumbs up*

Mr. Eeee -

The protected file extension used is .m4p. You can burn them in iTunes. Check iTunes Preferences->Advanced->Burning.

This may seem silly, but after you burn the iTunes Music Store tracks to audio CD with iTunes, you then can use the tracks from the CD with Toast. There may be times when you'll find that useful.