iTunes: Surprisingly useful when learning a foreign language
I recently began learning Danish. I'm taking a weekly class, and the first week's homework involved listening to the conversations we covered during the lesson. I began by playing the audio files, following along in the Danish transcripts. I found myself wanting to listen to the difficult parts over and over, but scrubbing through a timeline is rather awkward.
It occurred to me that I could use iTunes to solve this problem. Normally, iTunes will play a track from beginning to end. It's possible, though, to specify a certain portion of the track to be played instead. By adding an audio file to a playlist many times and specifying consecutive portions (e.g. 0:00–0:02, 0:02–0:04.8, …), a track can be broken into manageable clips for more convenient navigation.
Here's the end result:
