Take good notes. This information would be really good for us musicians, too.

JIm's music editing workshop was great. It started at 11 am and was supposed to end at 1:30, but they were still going when I left to take Faye to the airport at 3 pm.

Some quick notes:

Jim doesn't use ITunes because of its limitations. There are several other places to go for downloading music without those, such as emusic and magnatunes.

.wav files work best for editing because mp3 files are a compressed version. Sure, .wav files are much bigger, but you get all the notes. After you edit the file the way you want it, you can save it as a mp3 for size. If you're just going to listen to the music, mp3s are great.

.wav/.mp3 files have the widest range of tones. CD tracks have less and then let's not even discuss the tonal range of tape and vinyl (and I have a few of those I was thinking of converting to CD--really sad face--they will still sound bad).

We discussed where to cut music, which songs were the easiest to cut (drums because you have clear definition of phrases), how to blend two songs, how to make a song shorter, etc.

And even if you create the best sounding CD and the sound equipment is bad at the gig, you're out of luck.

It was a very informative workshop and one I hope he repeats.