Editing a file from Itunes library

Hello,
I called Apple care about this and they recommended asking here because they don't know how to edit files from I tunes library.
I have a live talk that was recorded on an MP3 recorder and given to me as a Wav file. I want to edit and cut out a live song on the beginning of the talk before burning copies because the quality is bad. I tried monkeying with this by changing the format to aiff or aac etc and when I try to drag it to garage band it doesn't import it. I also tried exporting it to garage band and it saves it as a text file and it's greyed out and I cannot open it.
Does anyone know how to accomplish what I am asking??
Thanks very much

yes there can be and hopefuly you have it in AAC -- don't have to but recommended. Use iTunes to set the 'start playing time' to the time after the song. When you imported your live talk file into iTunes, find the file and right click it then choose "Get Info". Choose the "Options" tab. In it, you will see a box and the words "Start time" next to it. Check that box and edit the start time that you want. In your case is the time when the song finish playing. Press "OK". Right click on the file again and this time choose "Convert Selection to AAC". A new file is being made which will start after the song just finished played.

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