Files in CBR showing up as VBR

[Shaun24009916ibar]

I've downloaded the 2024 version of Auditioin, and it appears to be identifying any audio files that are 192 kbps and lower as variable bit rate files even though they have been recorded in constant bit rate. This creates a huge issue since when I am uploading a file to a production order and our auto-dub function tries to retrieve the audio and metadata to place in our automation system. It identifies it as a VBR file which causes our server to hang up rather than a CBR file which it is able to properly process. Is this a metadata or bit rate issue that is causing this to be incorrectly identified?

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

Where is this identification happening? I've never been able to get Audition to do that, because it would require the file to be decoded (which it will be when Audition opens it anyway), but at that point the information disappears because it's been turned into a wav file; Audition simply can't open an MP3 as an MP3 because that isn't its working format.

[Shaun24009916ibar]

When I download the prod file from the production order and import it into Audition. I do a final QC to make sure it is to the audio spec levels and it shows that the file is in CBR. But when I reattach the audio file to the production order, it comes up as a variable bit rate file. A PDF of the screen shot of what I"m talking about is attached.