Editing a 3 hour mp3

Hi - still something of a novice in GB, this is a question about editing a radio show that I do on a weekly basis. I used to edit the shows (post-broadcast, just for archiving) with the free program Audacity. Audacity is a free/shareware program, a bit glitchy - I think it might be easier in GB.
Question is this: should I select 'podcast' as the format to edit in? What I mostly want to do is cut out a few minutes of the pre-show stuff and then cut the raw mp3 into three one hour segments that overlap slightly and have a 15 - 20 second fade-in at the beginning and a 15 - 20 second fade-out at the end. Used to be able to do this in Audacity, but like I said - glitchy prog.
Thanks.

Michael Murphy2 wrote:
should I select 'podcast' as the format to edit in?
sure.
it doesn't really matter what you pick, you can create and delete any type of track in a project as you wish. the templates are just that, various track types that may be useful for a specific application.
iow, if you choose Piano as the project type, you could delete the "software" track and just drop your file into a black area of the timeline allowing GB to create a track for it.

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