Burnin CD with higher sound leve.

[Mike Anderson]

About your advice. Are you saying that I need connect my CD player to my PC, record the program on to my hard drive with line level turned up, then burn the file on a CD-R?

Thanks, that makes sense and should work.

Except that it makes no sense, and probably won't work (at least not very well).

I wonder if there are other ways to do it without using my line-in on my PC? Thanx

Yes, in fact there are. Rip your CD to your hard drive by putting the audio CD in your CD drive and using normal CD-ripping software like iTunes.

Then, you can use a program to determine the peak sound level of every track on the CD. I use Wavelab, but it costs $$; there are other such programs.

These programs will determine exactly how much louder you need to make each track (e.g. +5db), such that the track is as loud as possible without resulting in digital distortion.

After adjusting the sound levels (also called normalization), you can re-burn the CD with the new, louder tracks.

[jrhymeammo]

Except that it makes no sense, and probably won't work (at least not very well).
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Why would it not work? I used program called Rip Viny in a past connecting RCA to 1/8" cable from phono pre to my PC line-in. I was able to adjust the recording volume.

[Mike Anderson]

Why would it not work? I used program called Rip Viny in a past connecting RCA to 1/8" cable from phono pre to my PC line-in. I was able to adjust the recording volume.

Yes, it will work - I guess should have made that clearer - but the point is that you're giving up a lot of sound quality, and it's probably MORE work to do it this way!

There's simply no reason to do it. It's both easier AND more accurate to do what I suggested.

It's as if someone asked:

"What's the best way to record my phono albums onto digital?"

And someone answered:

"First, record them onto cassette tapes. Then run the cassette tapes into your computer."

What's the point of the extra step of putting it on cassettes? You could just run your phono output into the computer. All the extra step of taping does is create more work and degrade the sound.