[Saramin]

Anyone know of a good, minimalist, preferably shareware music editing program? I'm not looking for anything fancy; the only feature I'm interested in is the ability to remove specific portions of the song and re-arranged the order in which certain pieces flow. No external sound effects, changing tempo, etc. Garageband won't let me do that for some reason.

Any thoughts?

[patman600]

Garageband should be able to do that. Click the button on the lower left, that looks like a pair of scissors, facing down. This opens the track editor. Select the portion you wish to move and go to edit:cut.

If you just cannot deal with Garageband, you can use audacity, an open source music editor, that should handle this job no problem. I have only used it on windows, but it was functional enough for this.

[Saramin]

Originally posted by patman600:
Garageband should be able to do that. Click the button on the lower left, that looks like a pair of scissors, facing down. This opens the track editor. Select the portion you wish to move and go to edit:cut.

I'm hesitant to ask this because I strongly suspect it will make me look like an utter moron but... I'm unable to open AAC or mp3 files using Garageband for some reason. They are always grayed out. I always just assumed the program could only edit .band files.

[Weezer]

Originally posted by Saramin:
I'm hesitant to ask this because I strongly suspect it will make me look like an utter moron but... I'm unable to open AAC or mp3 files using Garageband for some reason. They are always grayed out. I always just assumed the program could only edit .band files.

you can just drag and drop them into the timeline and they will import

[Saramin]

Aha, t'was as I suspected. I am a moron.

Thanks guys.