volume too low on album purchased on iTunes

Craw4dm,

If you go to iTunes menu, select preferences and click on "playback" button you'll see a check box called "sound check". This enables the computer to adjust the volume of each track so that they all sound similar in volume. So no, you don't have to go through each track! Its a global setting of your music player.

I have it switched off at all times. I also have sound enhancer switched off at all times.

These features have no effect on volume (or anything for that matter) when you burn CD's.

As to the original poster, if the CD sounds quiet then that is how its supposed to be. If buy the CD in the shops it will sound the same. Note that there is big trend at the moment to make albums sound very loud using special processing at the mastering stage (when audio is prepared for album release). It is a trend that most "audiophiles" (or IMHO anyone with ears!) detest. Look up "loudness wars" or similar, on google.

Indeed the "sound check" facility in itunes is there to counteract the fact that CD's sound different in volume - a fact that is made all the worse by the record company practise I have just outlined!

I suspect the "quiet CD" just sounds more like it should do and its being compared to a CD thats been mastered overly loud.

If you did download it again, you'd probably get the same results. You mentioned you've tried suggested things to "enhance" sound...not knowing what those things are, I offer the following suggestions:

Make sure Sound Check is turned off in iTunes.

Select the album tracks, do Get Info, and under Options drag the volume adjustment all the way over to the right.

Diane Wordsmith wrote:
If you did download it again, you'd probably get the same results. You mentioned you've tried suggested things to "enhance" sound...not knowing what those things are, I offer the following suggestions:

Make sure Sound Check is turned off in iTunes.

Select the album tracks, do Get Info, and under Options drag the volume adjustment all the way over to the right.

And one would have to do this for each and every track in iTunes? Forgive me, but I am (believe it or not) an iTunes newb and don't quite understand these audio problems, as I have never had any with WMP or Mediamonkey when I analyze the volume for all my songs (set it and forget it).

I've tried the "Sound Check" function and that didn't work at all.

Thanks for any and all help.