I use Rocksteady dsp plugin to make stuff louder for winamp. It does so well I often have the opposite problem. Now if a rocksteady or Sound Solution plugin existed in a hardware form to hook up to the stereo or something, it would be nice. ----- Original Message ----- From: maryemerson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: bct Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 10:13 PM Subject: [bct] volume differences when playing audio files in different players Hi all, I just sent a quick note to Neal about this (with my talent show submission) but this is a question that may be driving some of the rest of you crazy, just like it's bugging me, and maybe somebody has an answer so we can get our sanity back! When I play my submission (or other files) in Studio Recorder, they sound fine. But when I play it in Winamp, the volume is very low. I am just using Winamp lite with no fancy stuff in it; is there a weird sort of limiter built in that cranks the volume down or something? Sometimes the sound is so low in Winamp that I have to turn the speakers up all the way; true, they're just $30 speakers but usually they're pretty responsive. Anybody have a clue how this can be fixed? Is there a magic control in Winamp? Or maybe I should just play everything in Studio Recorder and forget Winamp! That's very tempting these days, but it would be a bit like bringing up Word just to write a one-line text file. Thanks - Mary