[DM-MUG] making a 10 minute music piece from 3 mp3 or mp4s

[Victoria L. Herring]

>I believe GarageBand will let you add protected MP4s as tracks. In 
>fact I believe there is a media drawer to access other iLife media 
>right there. I'd put each tune on a separate track, adjust the start 
>points to where you want them in the show, then use the fader 
>automation tools to fade up / down the tracks as needed. Also adjust 
>the end point (the little purple left facing triangle thingy up in 
>the timing bar to the point you want the resulting file to end.
>
>All in all I think GB is your best bet, since it's part of iLife, I 
>believe they anticipated people using the occasional protected tune 
>for their own use. If you want to be a bit "safer" about it you 
>could just leave it in GB and play it from there, not saving a 
>resulting mixdown file. THe trick would then be triggering it to 
>play when you want. I have a nice little transport box that'll do 
>that, but it's overkill for your project.

This is very helpful, thanks much.
By the way, GB, Audacity and MP3Trimmer - none of them will work with 
the AAC thing.  I may play it and record it on my ipod then work with 
it??

I had a copy of the song that won't work and it comes in fine but 
it's not the version we want to use == the one we want is the locked 
file and when I try to drag it in it says  "you cannot import a 
"rights-protected AAC audio file".  I do however have the three songs 
[using the version of #3 that I can import] now in GB with one on 
each line.

Now what? Not being sure what a track is and how you get #1 to go for 
so long before #2 and then play #2 to go for so long and then in 
comes #3, I'm at a loss == I tried to do a Cut to get rid of the part 
of #1 I didn't wnt or need and it deleted the whole thing...

I see that I can move the 2nd thing [track?] to the Right and put it 
at the endpoint of the 1st track but can't get the lst one to be cut 
or end when I want...
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