Audacity Forum

I have a podcast and decided to edit my most recent episode using Audacity. Everything's been easy to use and great. My only problem is that after saving my project to mp3 there's a loss of audio quality. Things sound kind of warbly. I checked the settings and everything was set to good quality. 128kbps, 44100 Hz and 32bit sample rate.

I went back and checked the individual files. They sounded fine. It's just after I export my project. Any ideas or things I should check? Thanks for your help.

Export it to wav. Does it sound ok there?

Usually 128 kbps MP3s sound pretty good, are you sure it's exported to the that bit rate? You can right click on the file in Windows and go to Properties -> Summary -> Advanced to find out the bit rate. It's odd that it sounds warbly.