Dragging mp3s into garage band

Before I was able to do this and I could cut and edit parts of songs out or loop parts if I wanted to transcribe them. Now garage band wont let me drag and drop songs into it. I thought maybe it was because I have'nt updated GB for a while ( I was using GB '08) I just recently upgraded to GB '11 and still cant do it. Any thoughts?
Thanks

A DRM protected AAC song is a song with Digital Rights Management - you can only play it on a handful of devices, and you can't import it into GB. You can identify it by pressing cmd-I in iTunes, it will tell you it's a purchased AAC song or so. You can buy DRM free songs in iTunes, they are more expensive than the protected ones.

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