Very basic audio editing on a Mac

A friend of mine has a show on the local college radio station and has invited me to come guest DJ, including making my own playlist. However, a couple of the songs have language which isn’t broadcast-appropriate and I’d like to do something a little better than dropping the volume at the appropriate time. Ideally, I could layer some other sound over it, but I’d settle for cutting out a quarter of a second since at least that way I don’t have to worry about precisely timing things on-air.

I’m running OSX. Can any of the included software do this? I was hoping GarageBand would work, but it doesn’t seem that I can import songs from iTunes to GB, so that’s out.

What you want is Audacity. It’s a free audio editor available on many platforms.

Quicktime, Pro version. $30, I think.

SoundStudio – free demo, I think.

Audacity works well for me too.
I think iMovie can be used as an audio editor.

I’ve used iMovie as a quick-and-dirty audio editor. Import sound file, snip and edit as desired, export to Quicktime as WAV/MP3/whatever. No need for Quicktime Pro, IIRC.

Did a couple’a ringtones this way just last night, actually.