Unwanted iTunes Conversions

Without my directing iTunes to do so some 250 songs were converted to very weird BitRate numbers: 160,198,199, 204, 238, 241, 242, 245, 248, 249, 251, 261 266, 320, 817, 823, 1411 kbps, but sample rate of 44.1 kHz stayed the same. I was able to convert (for the time being anyway) them back, but what might be happening to cause this? How might I correct it for the future?

Thank you for the prompt answer.
Those 250 (or so) songs were converted just once. And all those those rates I talked about were all the different rates that those same 250 were converted to, although most often the rate was 152 kbps.
I will take your advise in the future, but in this case I had alrady done a re-conversion. So I will need to delete them and then re-rip them, but as there are so many to deal with that is going to take some time. And unfortunately, for me, a number of them came from vinyl which I no longer have. And in the past when Apple has had them available for Match (and some of them will never be in Match) they have gone through that faulty conversion process once they hit my iTunes. (I can't say for sure, when this occurs or even under what circustances it occurs-my cocentration on this event wasn't "on" all the time.)
I did for some songs (certainly not all songs) use "Audacity" to alter volumes. So I had been suspicious of that at first, but I couldn't figure out how it could've done alteration to tracks that hadn't even been opened up by it.
And I wish to check out that VBR you mentioned-where would I find it?

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