Editing a song or podcast?

Is there a way to edit a song or podcast? If not, is there any software on the market that can do that? I have a few podcasts that are cool but a few songs have some heavy profanity that I want to delete but not get rid of the whole thing. There are also some songs in the Music Store that for some reason just has explicit versions....wish every artist made a Edited Clean version along with their Explicit versions!

Editing the music and editing a podcast can be very different, depending upon copyright issues. I haven't tried to edit any songs from iTunes, but I believe you can edit a podcast, by taking it into GarageBand and cutting out what you like. I wanted a song out of a podcast, and the GB route wasn't working, not sure why- used Audio Hyjack Pro and that did the job.
G5 Dual 2.7 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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When I edit a song in itunes (i.e change the year) on purchased songs, the next time I return to itunes, the information has reverted back to the original information. How can I change that?

When I edit a song in itunes (i.e change the year) on purchased songs, the next time I return to itunes, the information has reverted back to the original information. How can I change that?
When I purchase ITunes music, and it is a song from a Greatest Hits album, the Year of the song shows the year the CD was released and not the year the song was released (i.e. a song may be from 1986, but the Greatest Hits album was released in 1999, so my songs in ITunes show 1999). So, I go into each of those songs and change it to the year that I want to be displayed. As long as I don't exit out of ITunes, it will show the year that I changed it to (i.e. the 1986 year in this case). But if I exit out of ITunes and then return to ITunes, the year reverts back to 1999. The same happens if I change the genre of a song from, say 'Pop' to 'Alternative', it will revert back the next time I log in.
Oddly enough, as soon as I right-click on that song to change it back, the year/genre that I had entered returns.
How can I make it so my changes are permanently displayed as I want them? This is pretty annoying when I try to find a song on my Ipod under a certain genre, but it doesn't appear in that genre because the incorrect information gets synched to the Ipod.

Make sure that these two options in Edit > Preferences > Store are turned off:
Then exit iTunes and open it up again. Your metadata entries should then be persistent - with these options checked iTunes will be comparing what you have with the information held in the iTunes Store, and will overwrite with the latter for Store purchases (and if you have iTunes Match). If you have any iOS devices you should also turn off Show All Music under Settings > Music.

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Can not edit my songs in the itunes library
Windows7 64 BIT / SP1 / Self-built PC
Latest ITunes version 10.4
80GB Classic 5th GEN IPOD
      I had almost full of content on my ipod,then I upgraded from XP HOME(32) to Windows7 (64 Bit)
What I did not want to do was to spend time loading All 75GB back on the itunes Library, but decided I should restore the ipod, since it's been acting up a bit. I did not deactivate the last XP OS Computer prior to formatting the harddrive,because I thought it would not matter, since the software would be GONE.
So I downloaded another itunes/Quicktime on this new Win7 O.S., and created the same playlists I had before, then dragged each genre/main music folder into the appropriate folder in itunes.
I clicked on a few songs to change the Info, but they are all greyed out and I cannot edit anything....I never had these problems before.
How to I re-enable to EDIT the INFO again?   Thank you!
(itunes also told me I had authorized four out of five computers for this device...WHAT? There is only one computer, and my one ipod.
......BUT.......My sister has a 16GB itouch, and I put my songs on her itouch, also charged it up on my computer, since she does not have her own computer yet. Will that mess anything up?
Can she create her own User apple ID/password, then be able to edit her stuff from my computer? AUTHORIZE her itouch on my computer, or do I have to create her own playlists (because I have an 80GB, and she has a16GB, obviously, she will not get all mine on her small device) then checkmark ONLY her playlists to manage on her itouch, from my computer?
A few people told me to try this....
     I Plugged in the OL' ipod, Under the SUMMARY TAB, and under the OPTIONS TAB, I changed what I had, which was "SYNC ONLY CHECKED SONGS AND VIDEOS" [B]to MANUALLY MANAGE MUSIC AND VIDEOS"[/B]
THEN underneath that, "OPEN ITUNES WHEN IPOD IS CONNECTED", "AND MANUALLY MANAGE MUSIC WERE [U]BOTH CHECKED[/U]."
THEN - I went back into my Win Explorer Main Music folder,and under PROPERTIES, I unchecked the READ-ONLY Box, hit APPLY, then OK, then I went back into the itunes library and tried to edit a few songs, but they are all still greyed out and not editable.
I went back into the WIN EXPLORER main Music folder and checked to see if the READ-ONLY was still unchecked, but it automatically reverted back to READ ONLY.
Another question I wanted to ask was this. I have my main Music Folder on my Storage HDD. They are MP3 files, and listed as Country,Blues,Classic Rock,Reggae,etc. After I installed the WIN7 OS, I had to download itunes again/Quicktime,then dragged each main music folder into the appropriate playlist until they were all there. Since my itunes app is on my Boot Drive,and my main music folder on my Storage drive,am I wasting or adding any needless HDD space having on both HDD'S? or is this a non-issue? Thank you!

Hello All!
Well, after posting the help messages, I went diggingthrough both my itunes folder on my (C) drive, and then the Music Folder on my(F) Storage drive where I keep all my music files and then went into securityand in each line, I made FULL CONTROL, APPLY, then went back into iTunes afterplugging my ipod in and clicked on MANUALLY MANAGE TUNES.
I don't know which did it, but now I can edit the songs. To answer yourquestion, I was able to play the songs, but just couldn't edit any of themuntil now. Thanks for your Reply!

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Exception Name: NSInvalidArgumentException
Description: -[_NSConcreteUserNotification activationType]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x25a06b0
User Info: (null)
0   CoreFoundation                      0x922216fb __raiseError + 219
1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x920108db objc_exception_throw + 230
2   CoreFoundation                      0x9222563d -[NSObject(NSObject) doesNotRecognizeSelector:] + 253
3   CoreFoundation                      0x9216af77 ___forwarding___ + 487
4   CoreFoundation                      0x9216ad22 _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 50
5   iTunes                              0x00df38e2 iTunes + 14624994
6   iTunes                              0x00df36ae iTunes + 14624430
7   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x9201c6c5 -[NSObject performSelector:withObject:withObject:] + 77
8   Foundation                          0x93c12d85 -[_NSConcreteUserNotificationCenter _sendDelegateMessage:sendToAppDelegate:withNotificationFromMessage:] + 335
9   Foundation                          0x93c12eaf -[_NSConcreteUserNotificationCenter _notificationPresentedMessage:] + 58
10 Foundation                          0x93c137c2 __block_global_1 + 156
11 libdispatch.dylib                   0x9371b2cf _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 15
12 libdispatch.dylib                   0x9371ea80 _dispatch_client_callout + 46
13 libdispatch.dylib                   0x9371c8e8 _dispatch_main_queue_callback_4CF + 223
14 CoreFoundation                      0x9211b255 __CFRunLoopRun + 1829
15 CoreFoundation                      0x9211a7c4 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 308
16 CoreFoundation                      0x9211a67b CFRunLoopRunInMode + 123
17 HIToolbox                           0x90b6fc76 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 242
18 HIToolbox                           0x90b76eb9 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 374
19 HIToolbox                           0x90b76d34 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 88
20 AppKit                              0x97621923 _DPSNextEvent + 709
21 AppKit                              0x97621167 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 119
22 AppKit                              0x9761d78c -[NSApplication run] + 855
23 iTunes                              0x0017a898 iTunes + 1546392
24 iTunes                              0x0017a709 iTunes + 1545993
25 ???                                 0x00000002 0x0 + 2

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I just recently got an ipod and I'm loving it. I am a heavy music downloader and am also very particular about how my songs are organized (no duplicate artist names, songs, etc.)sometimes a song slips my eye, so how can i edit my songs and artists on my itunes and match it back to my ipod without having to delete them all and update the entire library again?
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Thanks a lot for the help and the quick responses (this discussion site is great)...so one more (Very elementary) question...you both say to sync the ipod "again", how do I do that? I know you sync the ipod when you simply connect it to the computer but after I make song edits, do I manually disconnect then reconnect to automatically update the ipod or is there a drop down button on the top of the itunes page that I can click?
So the run down:
1) Connect the ipod (sync)
2) Ipod settings on: (manually manage music) or (automatically update)
3) Edit the songs desired in: (my library) or (in ipod)? - which one should I do so that I don't have to do it twice?
4) Then resync the ipod to match the library (how do i "sync again")?
Thanks in advance for the help...
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I can't change any information for any songs in my library, everything is just greyed out. How can I get the ability to edit my song information?

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rlo49:
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
You will likely find people who are more familiar with your setup in you posted your question in the iTunes for Windows forum.
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cornelius

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I manually manage the songs and podcasts on my iPod Nana 3G. After installing the latest version of iTunes, I am now unable to select a tune/podcast or group of songs and transfer them to the iPod. When a tune is selected with one tap/click, the system highlights it. When tapped again, the text of the song is selected, permitting the user to rename the tune (not what I want to do). When I double-tap and "hold" the title of an unselected tune (which in the past has permitted me to select the tune and move it to the iPod), the system (again) selects the text for renaming.
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I don't know how this happened... can someone please help me??

Its one of two things,
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