Export to MP3 (CBR) creates VBR file

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Export to MP3 (CBR) creates VBR file

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Hello,
Something of a bug report in latest version of Amadeus Pro.
I use Amadeus as a final step in my podcast production chain, importing a 24 bit 96khz file from my master recorder, leveling and exporting as MP3.

Recently, the resulting mp3's will not stream in Apple Podcasts on iOS. After much head scratching, the culpit is found to be VBR encoding of the file. I use Export/MP3 with default settings of 192khz / CBR.

It seems that the software is not correctly applying the bit rate setting.
Thanks!
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Export to MP3 (CBR) creates VBR file

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Hi,
Recently, the resulting mp3's will not stream in Apple Podcasts on iOS. After much head scratching, the culpit is found to be VBR encoding of the file. I use Export/MP3 with default settings of 192khz / CBR.

It seems that the software is not correctly applying the bit rate setting.
I just tried to reproduce this and wasn't able to. Note however that if your file is imported from a compressed format that uses variable bitrate, then this would override your default. You can of course set it back to CBR by hand in the file saving dialog.
Regards,

Martin

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