Export from QuickTime: Just the music

Posting this under QuickTime and GarageBand2.
Is it possible to export just the music from QuickTime Player? If so, how?
To, for example, iTunes. And/or burn song to a CD?
Brought in some music I created via keyboard and a music program called Band-in-a-Box. Plays perfectly in Quicktime, but I want to get it into iTunes, or burn it to a CD.
When going through GarageBand 2, I lose some of the original sounds and effects I created.
It comes into QuickTime as MIDI.
I'm using QuickTime Player 7.5(v149.5) Computer specs are below.
Thanks.

MIDI isn't really "music" (in the CD sense).
QuickTime Pro could export what it "hears" into an AIFF file (like those found on CD's).

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