imported audio: crisp in the Audio Editor but warbly if published

By the way, here is an example of the warble/low quality audio problem I describe above. 

Note, of course I understand that the audio will go down in quality a BIT when published, since the file must be reduced in size for web delivery.  But I thought that this degree of quality loss seemed quite pronounced.

-- Here is the published presentation, which sounds too warbly to me, especially in the beginning. (the first slide is what I am discussing .. the other three were to see if it was different if I converted the source file to mono, or to MP3... didn't make much difference.)

http://metamango.com/assets/test-multimedia/test-warble/story.html

-- Here is the ORIGINAL wav file... which sounds so much more crisp.

http://metamango.com/assets/test-multimedia/test-warble-original-file/YYORIGT291.wav

Hey Eric,

Thanks for sharing the links. You're right, I'm detecting some degradation as well. Storyline does compress files to make playback more smooth, but there a couple things you can try.

If you haven't already, you might want to adjust the audio bitrate settings in your publish quality settings, to see if that helps.

Or as an unsupported workaround, you could try replacing the published version of the audio file with the original file - a similar process to what I described over here. 

Hope it helps

"If you haven't already, you might want to adjust the audio bitrate settings in your publish quality settings, to see if that helps."

Thanks, Peter—this was helpful, as I was getting the same 'compressed' sound in slide preview mode, and then realized that my custom publish settings were set to the lowest audio bitrate, held over from a previous project that did not contain audio.

Glad this much older discussion helped you out Jon!