Thursday, 02 May 2019
When I play MP3 through Winamp it plays to softly.what can I do ?
There are quite a few things you can do:
1) Don’t use the Nullsoft DirectSound plugin for output – this creates a lower output volume (check using Ctrl-P for Preferences, then select Output in the left window and see what plugin is selected for output in the right window).
2) Check, obviously, what volume you are using. Do you have Winamp’s own volume control enabled? (This is controlled by selecting the output plugin and then pressing the Configure button.) If so, turning it up to 100% will give you the maximum volume. Also, double-click on the little yellow speaker in the bottom right corner of your screen and check both the Master Volume (usually the leftmost slider) and the Wave Volume – both of these will affect Winamp’s output volume, so you will need to set them *both* to maximum to get the maximum possible output (but if either of them were set low before, proceed with caution – you don’t want to blow your stereo / speakers).
3) Do you have Winamp’s Equalizer enabled? If so, do you have the preamp or the band sliders set down low. Note that you can also enable the equalizer and then use the preamp slider at left to boost the volume that Winamp plays at – again be careful… go up a little at a time, checking the results.
4) Make sure you’re using the right output socket from your sound card – generally you’d want to use the Line Out socket…
Generally, if you go through these things, you should have no problem producing an output level suitable to feed an «Aux In» input on a stereo amp, equalizer or mixer… although it is certainly true that different sound cards can differ very substantially in the levels they put out – I don’t have to use the Winamp Equalizer to boost the level on either of the machines I feed to stereos, but I do set the Winamp volume to 100% on the living room machine, whereas I’m mostly using in the 10-30% range on my office machine (I tend to control the volume of the office playback from the PC, whereas with the living room machine, I tend to leave Winamp at 100% and use the volume control on the stereo…)
