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hi..
can anyone tell me about any audio sotware i can use to INCREASE the VOLUME and BASS of mp3 songs... without disturbing its quality..thanks

[Titan]

SoundSet ?
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[daonlyfreez]

Audacity

You can load a MP3 directly into it, do a select all, select 'Bassboost' from the 'Effects' menu, and use 'Normalize' from the same menu when you are satisfied...
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[CarlosTheTackle]

If you mean to adjust these qualities in real-time playback (which would be the preferred method) then players like Winamp have a pre-amp (which has several db of extra gain) and an EQ to add more bass or whatever.

If, on the other hand, you want to actually destructively modify the file, then I'm afraid there's no way to so without decoding and re-encoding the mp3 after processing, which will result in a significant loss of quality.

Unless you have some very good reason for doing so, I would suggest you modify your audio on playback only and don't mess with the files themselves.

[Invalid User]

well if your an audiophile freak like me, you might dish out several hundred buck (unlike me, cus I am a stealer) to get CoolEditPro, Soundforge or something of the like, that can contructivly add bass, or destructivly do the same. personaly I hate mp3s, but when I get a mp3 I open it up, do some noize reduction, do a 10K-21K 6db boost then save it as a .wav (@96,000Kps w/32bit) and listen too em that way, however, you may need a very large hard drive to store many files in such a formate. just my two cents.
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[daonlyfreez]

@CarlosTheTackle: true, it would be far better to use the 'original' wav files and save a modified copy as mp3, but maybe they are not around.

@Invalid User: don't underestimate what Audacity offers (including noice reduction and equalizing) I don't think that payware editors like CoolEdit or Sound Forge offer that much more/better stuff...

Audacity can load/edit mp3, which is a nice extra and can use VST plugins, so you can add more options if you want them...

Try it! Lotsa bang for no bucks...


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[CarlosTheTackle]

daonlyfreez, my point was that you can't load an mp3 into any software, modify its acoustic properties, and save it again without a 2nd generation of encoding, which will seriously diminish its quality. ie. it's not worth it.

[daonlyfreez]

Another one:

If you have many, many audio files (I know you do ), after a while it gets irritating that if you copy some to your player, some are real loud, others are quite silent...

Here is a command line program (called 'normalize' ofcourse) that you can use to batch-normalize WAV files...

WAV files means, you'll need to convert MP3s to WAVs first, which again means: you either need a big harddisk, or you need to cleanup inbetween batch conversion

@CarlosTheTackle: absolutely, any conversion means data loss and therefore quality loss..., but then again, you can get really lengthy discussions over the normalization process alone, any editing has it's pros and cons...

O, and here is some good audio stuff too...
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Thanks for the Audacity link daonlyfreez .

[Invalid User]

another way I normalize my audio is with a clip limiter, (found in the pioneer CT-F100) basicly, its simular to a compressor, but that is hardware, and that means money.
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