When I play MP3 in Winamp it won play loud at all – why?
Click on the top left corner to bring up the main menu, select Options, then Preferences. Select Output in the left hand window. You should see the Wave Out plugin selected in the right hand window. Click on the Configure button. There are two things to check in the window that comes up… at the top it will offer a choice of output devices – if there are several devices offered, try choosing “Wave Mapper” since this generally works best. Selecting an alternate device, such as your sound card’s system, may result in poorer sound. Also it’s possible that you had the “Direct Sound” output plugin selected, rather than the “Wave Out” plugin… this will also generally result in very quiet output. So… select the Wave Out plugin, and configure it to use the Wave Mapper for output. You might also try disabling Winamp’s volume control by unselecting the “Enable Volume Control” checkbox in the Configure window for the Wave Out plugin… this will leave all volume control to you Windows system
