Yikes cool edit help please!

[NYCDrums]

hey all, usually after I mix a song down I listen to it in the windows media player. on the bottom of the player it usually says that the song is playing at 128k/second. now today i was mixing something down then listened to it in the media player it sounded like it was underwater. then i looked and it said that the song was playing at 40k/second. it makes no sense to me because i didnt screw around with any of the settings, unless it was one of my family members. now i have no idea how to set it back if it was even touched, any ideas would help me out alot
thanks guys
joe

 

[dobro]

Are you talking about listening to something you mixed down with Cool/Audition?

 

[perottol]

Are you creating a mp3-file of the mixdown? Why?

The problem here is your mp3 compression settings, they are to low!