Editing and Mixing downloaded songs...

Hi. I am trying to edit and mix two songs that I downloaded off of itunes. I have attempted to import it into garageband by making the song's souce an .band source as opposed to the .aac source it was in previously. However, after reformatting the songs, garageband will not let me import the songs. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Rach,
Welcome to Discussions.
The songs from iTunes, AAC and MP3 are encoded, there is no way to use these (as they are) to mix in Garageband. Maybe I'm wrong.
But I think iMovie is excellent for this.
You could try re-posting in the garageband forum. They'll know 1000x more than I do.

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