Well,
My old G5 iMac, that had a bad power supply for almost a year, finally died. I was able to replace it with a brand new iMac, thanks to my generous 90-year-old grandmother.
The new computer is a lot better than the old one, which goes without saying, but there are some things I need to figure out.
My old version of Toast Lite, which I liked very much to burn CDs with, is no longer compatible because it was on the Power PC platform, and that apparently is 'no longer supported'. I liked that program because it was simple, relatively basic, and allowed me to add text info to CDs that I burned. Now it looks like I'll have to buy a new, expensive, version of Toast that contains a lot of things that I don't need and probably won't use. I looked into freeware online for CD burning for the Mac, but didn't see anything that looked appealing. Maybe I missed something.
What software are other Mac people using to burn CDs with?
I'm still irritated that these new Macs no longer come with internal optical disc drives! I have to purchase an outboard Superdrive.
I've always disliked iTunes, but I REALLY Hate this new version! iTunes used to let you listen to something without importing it into the library. This new version imports Everything you try to just listen to! I called the Mac store and complained about it and they said, 'Oh that's a new Feature.' I wouldn't call it a feature. I'd call it a bug!
One nice thing about this new Mac is that I was able to upgrade to xACT 2.23, from 1.73. Hopefully that will solve the FLAC issues that I had with the older version. People that I had sent FLACs to that I had encoded said that they were getting errors because the FFPs didn't match. I never did figure out exactly why that was happening.
Thanks,
ONT.