Playing itunes music track from somewhere other than beginning

I would like a piece of music to play from a minute into the track, rather than from the beginning.
I thought setting it with the play control QT inspector would fix it, but the track still plays from the beginning. I tried setting a different start point in itunes and reimporting the track, but it still goes back to the beginning. And as it's a protected AAC file, I assume I can't trim it anyway.
Looking at other posts on similar topics, I thik the answer is going to be "you can't".

You could burn it to a CD, re-import the MP3 file (which makes it an uprotected file), and then edit is as you like using an audio editor like the freeware Audacity, or even QuickTime Pro.

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