GB2 Audio Files Names

Hi All.
After watch an Apple Seminar On Line about Garage Band 2, I've decided to give it a try.
In fact I use Logic Express 7.
But I Like the easy workflow and GUI of Garage Band 2 to do simple work like the one described below.
My question is:
I'd like to use GB2 to convert some old cassete tapes into digital audio to burn a CD.
And I usually create a new GB project and sart to record the tapes into one stereo track.
OK, Now what I want to do is edit this audio file, splitting audio in diferent regions and have for example 2, 3 or more audio files names in the project file.
Then burn them later as individual tracks to a CD.
What I found out is that Garage Band is always a non-destructive audio recorder.
Even If I split the audio, the entire audio file is still there untouched in the project folder.
Is there a way to split the recorded audio in a lot of pieces and have new names for each of them.
With out this function it is not possible to do this kind of work in GB.
Thanks a lot in advance,
Gordon
Mac mini G4 1.25 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

I kind of knew that GB wouldn't do it.
Well, as I said, you can do it.
The fact that GB doesn't touch the original recording files is a feature, not a bug. It makes sure that through all editing stages, you retain your original material, which is very important. (And I can't imagine that Logic doesn't do that.)
There's a limited possibility to "mix down" adjacent snippets to a new one (and consequently delete the originals) with the "Join" command. For the sake of disk space, it could be a good thing to add a "delete everything that's not used" feature for the final save of a file.

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