How can I boost the volume of the original audio file? My mp3 player at full volume is still pretty quiet.

I have winamp and audacity (?) do either of these or windows xp or vista have anything to alter the file?

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Eoghan
member,Thurso Baptist Church
Scotland

specialist subject: Creationist Genetics (Bottleneck effect of the Ark)
interests: holiness (practical theology)
member of Biblical Creation Society (available as a guest speaker in the far north of Scotland)

I use audacity to edit my church's sermons. That way it is easier to listen to online (cause I boost the audio and do some other quick fixes).

Since you have Audacity do the following.

1. Open your MP3 file in Audacity
2. Once imported select all the audio
3. In the file menu click "Effect"
4. Then click "Compressor..."
5. Stick with all the default settings and press "OK"

If there are any spikes in the audio (like parts where the preach yells then:
6. select those areas of "spiked audio" with you mouse
7. In the file menu click "Effect"
8. Then click "Normalize..."
9. Stick with all the default settings and press "OK"

After that I usually repeat step one until the audio is at max level.

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jason d.
deacon @ Sovereign Joy Community Church
reformed baptist (LBC.1689)
fort worth (haltom city), texas

I use MP3Gain.

It's free, fast, simple and you can 'batch run' several MP3s at once.

Install MP3Gain, drag the MP3 files that you want to change into it, have it do a Track Analysis on all of them, and then have it do a Track Gain (to the dB level that you want) on all the files.

Simple and sweet.

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Steve Butts - Former SBC-er
Three Forms of Unity - Bradenton CRCNA - Bradenton, Florida
(A conservative member in a conservative congregation)

"Turning away to false Theology is equal to turning away to false gods" — Francis Schaeffer (Death in the City)

I cannot save the boosted files as mp3!!!

You probably don't have an MP3 encoder installed. You can download and install the free LAME MP3 Encoder and it should solve the problem.

You need to install the Lame MP3 encoder to get Audacity to export in MP3 format.

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Tom Albrecht
Elder, Covenant URCNA, New Holland, PA.

"When I find the time, I'm going to write the social history of bourbon."

Also here's a web page explaining your problem: Audacity: How do I download and install the LAME MP3 encoder?

-----Added 10/6/2009 at 10:52:53 EST-----

oops...Beat me to it.

I've used this often for my .mp3's and it does work very well.

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Norm
IA PCA

In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will. Ephesians 1:4-5

I would warn about turning it up to much it can severely damage the S/N ration (signal to noise ration). basically if you tuen the sound up too much on the original it will make the noise go much higher the signal anything under 1.0 severely damages sound quality.

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Robert Peters
Bethal Christian Church - PCA
LAMP Theolgical Semianry Student - M.Div
Kankakee, IL