Re-Encode Songs to have a higher volume?

[kirupa]

Hey everyone,
On a few of my older CDs, the music playback volume is lower than all of my other music. It's pretty awkward to increase the volume for just one or two songs on my playlist. The volume difference is so drastic between certain songs that using Volume Leveling back doesn't even seem to improve it a lot.

Is there a program that I can use to take a music file and re-encode it to playback at a higher volume?

Thanks!
Kirupa :cowboy:

[prstudio]

cool edit pro 2

or

sound forge will allow you to select the song, then increase the volume by whatever decibel you want - then allow you to encode into mp3

your computer labs there that have multimedia capabilities should have some good sound editing software installed - any would really do.

[radioxromance]

also audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net) works, I guess. I use it to up the volume of some songs, especially work I record myself, cause I'm real bad at getting the volume right apparantly.

Not sure if it's as good as prstudios.

[evilgoo]

use mp3Gain http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net it works great and I use a target "normal" volume of 97dB.... I think its exactly what you're looking for. I found out about this program thru an issue of Maxim LOL.

[B3NKobe]

Well this thread come in handy for me!! I had the same problem as Kirupa, just i havnt gotten of my butt to find any programs to fix it. I downloaded Sound Forge, it really helped out :D:D

[kirupa]

I found a program, after trying the above programs, that seems more straighforward for just simple MP3 re-encoding: http://www.mptrim.com/ :beam:

[Butters]

cool edit pro 2

or

sound forge will allow you to select the song, then increase the volume by whatever decibel you want - then allow you to encode into mp3

your computer labs there that have multimedia capabilities should have some good sound editing software installed - any would really do.
Cool Edit is no more, Adobe bought it and turned it into Adobe Audition.

GoldWave is pretty good, its free and should do the job :)

[prstudio]

^i keep forgetting that.