Trying out the microphone for a “bootleg”

I wanted to see what the microphones could do on our iPods since I plan to use mine to record a conversation about iPods later this week (for assessment, of course…)  I was going to record our dinner conversation at home tonight until I realized we weren’t having a real family dinner because we were going to my eldest son’s concert.  Godwin High School has an incredible music program, and they did not let us down tonight.  I recorded the Madrigal group and some Barber Shop after that.  The battery wasn’t completely charged and yet it made it through over 40 minutes. I came home and hooked up the ipod to my computer and voila!– new music for my itunes!  The problems started after that.  The file was too huge to upload to my blog, so I tried to cut just a part of it out to make a podcast in Garageband. I did manage to learn how to open and edit and play around in Garageband a bit, but the file is still too big: (   Tomorrow I’ll see if  any of the experts from the CTLT have advice for me.  When I get it straight, I’ll  put up a nice piece or two.