Audacity

Several of you are planning to play music for your presentations, and to keep them under five minutes, you may need to do some editing. The free software I recommend to do that is called Audacity. You will have to figure out how to use it, but it's pretty user friendly and I can assist if you have any problems. There are manuals and tutorials on the site. From their website:

About Audacity

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:

• Record live audio.
• Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
• Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.
• Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
• Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
• And more! See the complete list of features.