Editing a soundtrack

I have just imported a CD of a Broadway Show to Itunes. The CD is the soundtrack of the show. Unfortunately, the whole CD is one track. There are about 4 songs I would like to sync to my IPOD. Is there a way to edit this one track into four 'pieces'? I see there is a way to set a stop and start time in GetInfo for this track but am I right in assuming that the whole track is still in Itunes and will be copied to the Ipod? I really don't want to copy the whole CD to my Ipod four times (each with different start/stop times) just to be able to listen to four of the songs. Is there a better, easier way?
Or should I give up, go to the ITUNES store and buy those four songs and download them?

There are other ways of getting the songs seperated. You might want to do a search through goggle for ( Song Editor ) This will give you a list of software that will allow you to seperate the songs you want. I have never used one so would not know what to recommend to you.

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hallo kraut cutter,
köln ist nicht weit weg von kupferzell.
hattes du das gleiche problem wie wir das du eine xml datei aus einem mehrspur soudtrack projekt nicht
mehr importieren konntest, und konnten dirdie software rebellen
mir ihrem tool gezielt helfen.
ich hab eau fder website keinen hinweis auf die problemlösung entdecken können.
trotzdem danke erstmal für deinen hinweis.
das tool kann sicher viele probleme lösen.
gibt es nach der installation so eine art systemcheck mit hinweisen auf
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gruss armin

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