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Posted by Orpheus on Fri Feb 17th at 4:45pm 2006

I listen to audio books when I travel. With a very few, the recorded volume is so low that even with my players booster and the volume on the radio to full I still cannot hear it clearly.

I have an MP3 player and a broadcaster that puts my books on the cars stereo system to explain how I listen.

My question. What can I do to increase the volume to a level I can use? Would it be hard to re-record it somehow?

The books in question are original prints on CD, not copied MP3's.

Would it be easier to make them into MP3's and simultaneously increase the volume?

Any help would be appreciated.

(Do not allow this thread to degrade to stolen content please. The disks are original, I just cannot hear them.)





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Posted by Gwil on Fri Feb 17th at 5:15pm 2006

See if you can get a trial of Goldwave, that might be able to do it. If it still exists. It's pretty easy to use, too.

Some people might have better/more knowledgeable ideas.




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Posted by Orpheus on Fri Feb 17th at 5:23pm 2006

? quoting Gwil
See if you can get a trial of Goldwave, that might be able to do it. If it still exists. It's pretty easy to use, too.

Some people might have better/more knowledgeable ideas.

What does Goldwave turn it into? I mean, I don't actually want to discuss *taboo* but will it be a format my player will understand?

/me goes to search for Goldwave.





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Posted by Gwil on Fri Feb 17th at 6:30pm 2006

Goldwave will turn it into an editable format (like wav) , you can tinker with the sound values, then resave it as an mp3

At least I think you can, anyway!




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Posted by Orpheus on Fri Feb 17th at 6:32pm 2006

I found only one link and it tried vainly to download at .663k

I gave up after the first 10k of the 1.5 megs file.





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Posted by French Toast on Fri Feb 17th at 9:34pm 2006

There are many mp3 to wav converters out there. Leave it downloading overnight, and then you can do everything you need in the windows sound recorder. Open up the WAV and edit to increase the volume (there's a convenient buton for that, really easy) and resave as mp3.




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Posted by Dark Tree on Fri Feb 17th at 9:47pm 2006

downloading software is not necessary

This is easy.....just rip the CD to WAV using Windows Media Player. THEN Open up the .WAVs with Windows Sound Recorder And There is an option to turn up sound by 25% (or something).....there are only like 3 options, so that'll be easy.. THEN Re-burn the edited WAV(s) to another CD. Just keep upping the sound by 25% till you got it where you want it.

If you don't want to waste CDs, then you can convert the .WAV to .mp3 and put it on your MP3 player. One of the best mp3 converters I have found is simply titled 'right click MP3'. Here is a direct link to the download (396 kb ): http://my.execpc.com/~sfritz/rc-mp3/RcMP3v165.exe. You just right click the wav and choose to convert to mp3! It is freeware, too.

Hope that helps





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Posted by Orpheus on Fri Feb 17th at 11:30pm 2006

Thanx guys. Sounds simple enough for this old codger to cypher.



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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Feb 18th at 3:38am 2006

UPDATE:

My Nero has an option to edit sound files. Its not terribly difficult either, but tedious to say the least.

I have one final request. Does anyone have a version of dBPowerAmp thats not timed? I only have a 30 day version.

Anyway, Nero is the answer fellas if you have this problem.

Thanx for the assist.





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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Feb 18th at 1:31pm 2006

UPDATE 2:

I am learning a few things here. Would anyone be interested in a short tutorial in this? I am not trying to promote theft but there are a few sound applications that can be used in mapping.

It would not be a tutorial on how to use sound entities. It would be a tutorial on sound editing only using the tools I have mentioned above. Specifically Nero and possibly dBpowerAMP.

Anyway, any thoughts on a tutorial would interest me. I cannot be the only one who asks the question this thread covers.





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Posted by Crono on Sun Feb 19th at 9:38am 2006

I'm sure you consider this a closed matter, but AudioGrabber is nice. It's fast, small (~1.6MB Download 1.85MB Installed), and absolutly free (with plenty of support and options). It actually allows you to enode using any audio codec you have on your computer (with encoding abilities, mind you)

http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/download.html

And that site has all the information in the program you'd every want. It also has a normalizer, so you can adjust audio levels, I believe.

Easier than any of that other Super-Commerical stuff out there.

There's also plenty of mirrors, so it should be pretty fast downloading. Took me less than 3 seconds. So, I imagine it wouldn't take longer than 15 minutes on a 56K (guessing)


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Posted by mazemaster on Sun Feb 19th at 1:05pm 2006

Here is the goldwave installer:
http://www3.hmc.edu/~nalger/gwave506.exe

Great program.


http://maze5.net



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Feb 19th at 1:38pm 2006

Oh wow. Thanx guys.

Especially, the Agler link. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">





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