Stopping vbr - maximizing song quality

while importing music (from hard drive, not CD), ITunes is automatically changing 320 kbps (what I want) to vbr, which is decreasing song quality. How do I stop this!!!
Danile

iTunes Preferences > Advanced > Importing > Choose your format (mp3?) and click settings > custom. Uncheck use variable bitrate.

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