What sofware to edit songs in iTunes??

[alaimo]

I'm an iTunes Mac OSX newbie and have just one simple audio task to perform... shortening the length of some longer songs in iTunes before I export them to my iPod or burn them to a CD. I found one shareware program called Audacity ...but it appears to import MP3 but not MP4 files, which I beleive I need for the newest iTunes compatibility.

Any suggestions?? (SFX: Applause and thanks from me!)

[steelphantom]

I believe Garageband will do the job just fine. :cool:

[frankblundt]

A bunch of free and relatively simple solutions are discussed in this thread (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=180785). iTunes can covert into or from mp3, m4a and lossless depending on what's set in Prefs > Advanced > Importing.
For maximum quality import as lossless (or AIFF) and cut, edit, compress from there.

[kwajaln]

I believe Garageband will do the job just fine. :cool:
Yep, I use Garageband for the exact same thing all the time!! :)

[beatsme]

I'm an iTunes Mac OSX newbie and have just one simple audio task to perform... shortening the length of some longer songs in iTunes before I export them to my iPod or burn them to a CD. I found one shareware program called Audacity ...but it appears to import MP3 but not MP4 files, which I beleive I need for the newest iTunes compatibility.

Any suggestions?? (SFX: Applause and thanks from me!)

I use GarageBand for this as well. Works like a charm.