Nokia Volume Booster...

[skip2mylou]

hey there everyone,
while playing some audio files on my Nokia 6620, my coworker asked me to turn it up, and i told him that it was at its highest. he pulled out his phone and he played a song and it was at least double the volume of my phone. i forget what model his phone was but it was incredibly loud. please let me know if there is a way to boost my cell phone volume by at least double, thanks.

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[kschang]

It's the file, not the phone.

[skip2mylou]

ok makes sense. since it compresses the audio file sizes with no virtual quality sacrifice, i convert my MP3s to AWB to play on my phone. if i use MP3Gain to really boost the volume of the MP3s and then convert them to AWB and play them on my phone, will i hear a difference...? u know what ill try it out and ill post back. thanks for the tip.

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[jimmalenko]

u know what ill try it out and ill post back.

That's the spirit !

[skip2mylou]

i tried it but the results werent great. sure the volume was loud but all i could hear was static BOOMs. i dont think that the file volume needs to be louder cuz then it sounds bad. i did some reading on some other forums and apparently there should be a volume booster, but i havent been able to get any names of this mystery app. anyways please do post, thanks.

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[reboot]

When doing the audio, increase the volume, then normalize it.
This should clip off the peaks, so you don't get the static booms.
Different phones react differently to diffferent files, depending on the quality of the speaker(s) in the phone.
I have a moto e815 that does nicely with mp3's, providing they're not overmodulated by manually increasing the volume in somethin like Goldwave, even if I normalize the file.
I can play the same file (not normalized) on my Samsung A920, and just about rattle the windows.

If you load the mp3 into Goldwave, you can easily manipulate the file any way you want it.
Then convert, save to your phone, and test it.
If it's bad, just keep trying, until you have the right balance of audio.
Increase the file's bitrate (I know it makes for larger files), and try a higher sampling rate.
Some phones just can't work with full blown mp3's at 48khz, and will "clip", during playback...that is, produce static during highs and lows in the music.
Goldwave can also cut these peaks down (lowpass/highpass filter). Just click Effects, Filter, and play with a few of them.

[skip2mylou]

hey thanks very much, it makes a lot of sense and i am sure to try it out. ill let u know how it goes...

[skip2mylou]

yeah ur right, i tried it out, i stressed every possibility and it turns out that i simply do not have the greatest speakers... and ill just have to be happy with what ive got. thanks for the advice tho...