Decent blu-ray authoring software - any suggestions?

Hi
I recently moved from PC to MAC and changed from Adobe to Final Cut Pro. I have no problems with authoring to DVD but I am struggling to see how I am going to do decent blu-ray authoring on MAC. Reason being is I have a number of clients that want both DVD and Blu-ray and I like to create interesting menus with background music. I am relatively happy with iDVD and DVD SP (which of course are not blu-ray compatible so no good to me) and I have just purchased Toast Titanium Pro and discovered you can not add music to the menu or do much else so it feels like a waste of money - any suggestions for good alternatives would be appreciated.
Thanks

David Bogie Chq-1 wrote:
If you plop the topic to google you can settle in for several hours of frustrating reading.
Ah, google!
There are dozens of PC-windows apps. Heck, these are free!
http://www.audioholics.com/news/industry-news/open-source-blu-ray-authoring
http://www.brighthub.com/multimedia/video/articles/69842.aspx
bogiesan

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