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Didn't reply to a couple of Steve's points.
The sound is bubbly - on interviews / sound-bytes but singing all seems OK.
There's no similar distortion on any of the other stuff I've done,
but all the previous ones were all recorded in wav. As mentioned, this was
recorded in mp3 by mistake.

The mix has lots of tracks. The distortion is most noticable on interviews, mostly on the male voices. In some cases there's background noise superimposed (via another track). But there's no improvement from playing the voice tracks solo. I've realised one problem though. The original sound files ar...

No. The sound quality is equally bad when I play the mix within Audacity. It sounds the same regardless of what I do. But the original wav files (which I imported) sound perfect. And my understanding is that these imported files are linked within the aup file rather than copied into it. I must have ...

I fully understand that the original mp3 can't be retrieved. But why can't I re-create a new mp3 (with the correct settings)
by extracting from the original Audacity project? Has the aup file been irretrievably damaged by exporting the original mp3?

Please, can anyone give me any clues as to what I'm doing wrong? I've mixed a number of podcasts in the past quite successfully. But something has gone wrong with the latest and I can't see how to retrieve the situation. I'm using Audacity 1.3-13 beta on Windows XP to mix my own wav-format field rec...