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Corel (formerly Roxio) has continued to issue new versions of Toast that correspond roughly to major operating system changes they’re now up to version 20, and although they have added features to the suite of software that they ship with Toast, the underlying main program hasn’t changed much. I started using Toast 5 back in 2003 when it ran on a Titanium PowerBook G4. So what is the problem to be solved then? In one word: Toast.

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You can get a USB interface M-Disc compatible portable CD/DVD burner from Other World Computing for only $35, and the M-Discs themselves are available from Amazon. So maybe it makes sense to put together a couple of M-Disc DVD’s containing your most irreplaceable family photos, videos, and oral histories. Even if you discount that specific claim, it seems likely that an M-Disc will hold your data through the next generation or two. There is a technology out there called the M-Disc, which is supposedly archival quality the manufacturer has put their discs through rigorous testing, and they make the claim that data stored on an M-Disc should last a 1000 years. You might be listening to this, thinking “Optical media is dead, Apple got rid of it ten years ago, why should I care?” One reason that I can think of is that I still think that it is good to have a layered defense against data loss.

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I archive the AIFF files and photo documentation on a NAS for safekeeping. Now when I sync with my iPhone the MP3 gets transferred to the phone, where I can listen to it on the go, or in the car, or at work. (If it doesn’t find a match with Gracenote I have to manually enter the metadata in Music before ripping the CD to an MP3). Once the CD has been burned, I mount it so that Music sees it and tries to match it up to a commercial CD product often it will find an appropriate match, and then I just direct Music to rip the CD to MP3 format within Music. I am careful to use the highest quality discs that I can lay my hands on, and run the burning program at minimum speed (usually 4X) with good quality Taiyo Yuden or JVC discs (now superseded by CMC.) I have had good luck with CDs still being readable after 15 years.

Then burn the whole data set to a CD using a CD burner program. Photograph the album cover, front and back, along with any enclosed liner notes.

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Adjust the levels of the tracks, and split the tracks out to individual files in 16-bit AIFF format back in Amadeus Pro again. Send the resulting AIFF file through a (now obsolete) program called ClickRepair to clean up the clicks and pops of the vinyl record, restoring it to near-CD audio quality.

The stereo digital stream is captured by Amadeus Pro, a sound editing program also available from the Mac App Store. My workflow for the project goes something like this: play an LP while recording it through a Scarlett 24 bit stereo A/D converter.

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It also turns out that when you create a CD that closely replicates the order and timing of the original LP it will often be recognized by Apple Music (neé iTunes) as a commercially produced CD, and Music will automatically download the metadata like the performer, song title, and album from Gracenote, saving a lot of manual data entry. This is possible with programs like Toast, which you can use to create what are called “Enhanced Audio” CDs that have separate sub-volumes for the musical tracks and digital data. I could easily rip the LPs to digital files, and call that sufficient, but I’m kind of old-school and anachronistic: I like to make CDs that include not only the audio files but also the liner notes and the artwork. This is why I need a Real Desktop Computer, with a CD/DVD burner drive. I have an on-going project of transferring content from those spinning vinyl disks to digital formats so that I can play them on the radio program that I host biweekly at the local radio station, KBOO-FM Portland. I haven’t counted them lately, but there are about 35 linear feet of LPs stacked tightly in four bookcases. I have a lot of 33 1/3 LP records, nearly all of them from the folk music genre. And I still use a Real Desktop Computer, not even a cool Apple Silicon laptop: as detailed in an earlier submission, “I’m Still Using a 2010 Mac Pro” as a daily driver, for reasons that will soon be revealed. I don’t do social media, other than to sign into Discord on Sunday nights to check in with the friendly and enthusiastic NosillaCastAways. I have an iPhone, but it is an old-ish iPhone XR (ten-R?) and I don’t even use half of my 3GB data allotment. I write paper checks to pay my utility bills. My adult children think I’m an anachronism.