Yes, you can play MP3 files and arrange them into playlists with iTunes. When you are ready to burn a CD, simply select all the songs you want and drag and drop them onto the Toast audio window. A. iTunes is primarily an MP3 jukebox application that provides basic CD burning. If all you want to do is make very basic audio CDs, and you are running Mac OS 9.1, and you have a supported drive, iTunes may be all you need. On the other hand, Toast was designed as a professional CD mastering tool.
Most recording studios use Toast to master their production CDs.
Toast builds on the limited capabilities of iTunes and provides support for more Macs, more OS versions, more CD formats, and more CD recorders than iTunes. Toast burned a backup copy of the same CD in only 9 minutes and 17 seconds - more than twice as fast as iTunes. Since iTunes cannot convert MP3 files on the fly while burning a CD, it must first write the entire CD to hard disk. This extra step requires an additional 800 MBs of free disk space. A CD copied using Toast will sound just as good as the original.