I just started having some weird issues with bit rate when bouncing.
I'm working on mixing tracks for an album and importing them into wavelab for mastering, and I've been bouncing at 24 bit 44.1k, which is what I recorded at. Everything was working fine until I bounced this latest song for the 15th time or so, and wavelab said it could not recognize the audio format. I bounced it several more times checking each time that the bit depth and sample rate were set correctly, but I keep getting the same error message. Upon some investigation, I realized that all the other songs, bounced with the same parameters, are 2116kbps bit rate, but this track that's causing issues is at 3175kbps.
EDIT:
Figured it out. I was messing around with surround panning and forgot to remove my surround bus. Moderator can lock this thread haha