Cannot export modified audio to MP3

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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I am using Windows 10, Audacity 2.1.2

I imported audio from two different MP3s to Audacity. I combined parts of the two MP3s (songs I bought) in order to create a new audio piece that I now want to export from Audacity. My Audacity file is 5.28 minutes long. When I export my audacity file to MP3, it exports the audio from one of the original MP3s from which I created the Audacity file and is only 2.59 minutes long (the length of that original MP3s). I didn’t have this problem with an older Window version or older version of Audacity. I am using this audio for a musical freestyle equestrian competition and need to make a CD soon. I hope this all makes sense. I hope you can help.

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For making a CD, you should export as “16-bit WAV”.
Exporting as MP3 will needlessly reduce the sound quality, whereas 16-bit WAV format (which is basically the same format as CDs use) won’t.

Does it work if you export as WAV?

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No, still doesn’t work. I’m guessing that there is some lock on the original audio MP3 songs that I downloaded. Any way around that? thanks

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Ok, I figured it out. I had to copy my audicity file and paste into a new audicity file and then I exported as WAV and now I can make the CD! .