Easy way to trim audio files?

I am trying to create a movie with reeldirector, and I would like to use segments of 3 different songs, but I cannot trim the audio to the proper length. Anyone know an easy way to either a)edit the audio with reeldirector, or b)create a new song file that is a trimmed version of the original. I would like to do this on my iPhone 4 and not deal with iTunes.

There is currently no way to trim audio files with reeldirector, but I found a workaround. I had to cut each audio file to length using the free program Audacity (I use a PC). The shortened songs could then be inserted into reeldirector at the appropriate times. iTunes could cut the song to length, but it does not change the time stamp of the song. This caused problems when I imported into reeldirector. It was much easier to cut the song in Audacity, and then import to iTunes, and then to my iPhone. It was the long way around, but the final result is very nice.

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