Boosting volume of wav file playback

[Dena Jo]

Are there any controls in Windows XP for boosting playback volume?
There was something along that line in Windows 98, but I can't find a
comparable control in Windows XP. Hopefully I'm just missing it. I
use a court reporting software that has .wav files associated with a
given transcript, and those .wav files do not play back very loud on my
XP computer, whereas if I play the same .wav file on my old Windows 98
computer, it's much louder. And it's not just my XP computer. The
court reporters that I work with don't get good volume on their XP
computers either.

Any advice? Thanks.

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[Bob I]

Double click the volume control icon in the notification area, and then
increase the "wav" volume.

 

[Poprivet]

Are there any controls in Windows XP for boosting playback volume?
There was something along that line in Windows 98, but I can't find a
comparable control in Windows XP. Hopefully I'm just missing it. I
use a court reporting software that has .wav files associated with a
given transcript, and those .wav files do not play back very loud on
my XP computer, whereas if I play the same .wav file on my old
Windows 98 computer, it's much louder. And it's not just my XP
computer. The court reporters that I work with don't get good volume
on their XP computers either.

Any advice? Thanks.

Double Click the speaker icn on the System Tray (right hand of Taskbar).
Slide the WAV slider up all the way and then the Volume up further.
If that's no help, then, IFF it's reasonable, there is a freebie app
called Audacity which will allow you to increase the amplitude of the wav
file signals.
You can find it here:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/

It also has a batch mode for multiple file manipulation.

Reliable, no ads, no popups, very powerful.
Usually the Effects; Normalize feature would be all you need, but you can
boost the volume even further with Amplify, though it may create distortion
then.

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