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Right! If you are in this post, you are apparently looking to get more out of your puny windows laptop or PC speakers. If you have already cranked up the volume slider to max, but still cannot hear anything satisfactory, you will have to follow some steps to get some more juice out of those speaker amp units and to Increase Maximum Volume in Windows.

I have a window laptop myself, and the speakers are just, meh! So here are a few things which worked out pretty well for me, and would work for almost any windows system out there. So let us see how we can increase maximum volume in windows systems. Just do one of the following things, and you should get noticeable changes.

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Start ' 'C: Program Files (x86) VideoLAN VLC vlc.exe' -mmdevice-volume=0.35 'F: Beastmode.mp3' However, it's somewhat moot because your system volume will determine the apparent volume anyway. So to control the system volume I downloaded nircmd and put it into system32. Nircmd uses 65535 as 100% volume, so a 50% volume is 65535 ÷ 2 = 32767.5, and I round to 32767. VLC is a popular software media player that can play multimedia files of various formats. The volume control in VLC can be used to increase or decrease the volume. VLC allows users to increase the volume up to 400%. Once the video is launched, the mouse scroll button can be used to increase the volume up to 400%. Increase VLC Volume up to 400%.

  • 1 4 Ways to Increase Maximum Volume in Windows

4 Ways to Increase Maximum Volume in Windows

Use Audio Enhancements

You can use the built-in sound enhancements of your system. If you have not tried that out yet, go ahead and do it now.

To do that, first head over to your system tray at the bottom right corner of your taskbar. Click on the icon of a loudspeaker, which represents device audio.

When you get the slider for the audio, you will also see an option called ‘mixer' at the bottom of it. Select it, and you will see a window with volume mixer with device and application audio mixers.

Select the system option in it, and head over to the enhancements section. If your hardware supports it, you should see a number of equalizer settings below the ‘disable all enhancements' option.

Choose the option that says loudness equalization and click on the OK button. But if your built-in sound card does not support any audio tuning via a simple equalizer, you have to scroll along to other methods.

This option worked out fine on my desktop PC, but I did not find any options other than the ‘disable all enhancements' option on my laptop.

Try Employing Boosters

Sound booster plugin software is a pretty simple way to enhance audio, almost instantaneously. There are a few plugins that I can name, but most of them are not free.

If you are okay with paying a premium for your audio enhancements, then I guess you have a lot of options to choose from. But if you are like me and think that you have already spent enough for the existing PC hardware, you would be better off with freeware.

There are some plugins out there which provide a free version along with an optional upgrade to the pro version. You might already be familiar with some famous names like DFX Audio Enhancer, which boosts the audio playback for media and system alerts.

You will not get a ton of options with the free version, but it will suffice for those looking to get any bump up attainable. Hope it will increase maximum volume in Windows system you're using.

Use a Third Party Media Player

This may not be the most geek approved manner of getting your sound boosted, but it works. Use a third-party video/audio player, like VLC player for instance. They simply increase maximum volume in Windows platform that also for free.

It has a built-in decoder that allows you to boost the volume of the media file beyond 100%. There are other players too, such as KMPlayer with similar audio enhancements using hardware and software decoders.

It may feel like it is not a real solution, and you may be right. This still does not address your concerns with relatively lower system volume. It only applies to media volumes.

That said, most of us look for somewhat juicier audio only during audio playback during a movie or quite simply just a song. So a third party player like this won't be too much of a nooby idea.

You will have to rely on other methods for boosting game audio and other things that will depend on your system's audio tech to improvise for themselves. Maybe the next way will answer that question.

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See also: 6+1 Best PC Cleaner Software to Boost Your System

Boost Using Realtek Software

You can try and play around with your sound card software that is installed on your system, usually along with the audio drivers themselves. To do that, you will need to have some knowledge of your existing audio card.

You can get to know more about your audio hardware on board using any diagnostics software, such as the SiSoft Sandra.

Once you have correctly identified your audio hardware, download the appropriate Realtek driver software for it, even if you seemingly have one installed. Downloads available will usually be the latest versions.

You can also download it from Creator if you don't like the Realtek solutions for your system.

If you want to add some additional boost to your games, however, you can check out some specific sound boosters for that. I came across this software which seems like a paid one but appears to be pretty dope.

It's called sound booster by Letasoft. You can find out more about these guys and their software product from their website.

They claim that it works with any software or program and does not require any additional hardware that may not be present on generic computer systems.

I'm not confident as to how they can achieve it, but they say that you can pretty much get any program to be as loud as you want. It might be worth a shot, as you can try it out for free from their site. This way you can increase maximum volume in Windows system whether it's 7, 8, 8.1 or 10.

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Before you wonder why you might want to increase the volume up to 800%, let us presume for a moment that you don't have that awesome 7.1 gaming rig. A few good movies and YouTube videos are probably on the web with faint audio tracks and it is impossible to listen to them if your headphones are too far from your seat. And thus, the 800% volume boost would help you in those cases.

Click here to skip ahead to an updated volume workaround for the latest updated version of VLC (VLC 3.0 Vetinari)
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How to boost the VLC volume beyond 200%

It is by default that VLC lets you scroll up to 200/400% of the volume in a media. But still for a hell lot of YouTube videos, such volume wouldn't be audible enough. So for such quiet videos, the VLC volume can be increased up to 800% by using the command prompt.

Step 1: Open a command window inside the VideoLan directory. Navigate to the VideoLan directory C:Program Files (x86)VideoLANVLC, Shift + Right Click and then select Open command window here

How To Increase Volume In Vlc Player

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Open command prompt and cd C:Program Files (x86)VideoLANVLC

Step 2: Now if you want to stream a YouTube video with a high volume, you should open the VLC player with such high volume before you stream.

Now in your command window type in vlc.exe --volume 1024

1024 can be replaced with higher levels if the video is damn quiet.

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You can also download it from Creator if you don't like the Realtek solutions for your system.

If you want to add some additional boost to your games, however, you can check out some specific sound boosters for that. I came across this software which seems like a paid one but appears to be pretty dope.

It's called sound booster by Letasoft. You can find out more about these guys and their software product from their website.

They claim that it works with any software or program and does not require any additional hardware that may not be present on generic computer systems.

I'm not confident as to how they can achieve it, but they say that you can pretty much get any program to be as loud as you want. It might be worth a shot, as you can try it out for free from their site. This way you can increase maximum volume in Windows system whether it's 7, 8, 8.1 or 10.

Hey everyone! I'm just a simple guy who absolutely loves tech. It's my dream to make sure that all the updates in the tech world reach everyone is simple words. Hope you have a good time on my blog! 🙂

Computing48

Before you wonder why you might want to increase the volume up to 800%, let us presume for a moment that you don't have that awesome 7.1 gaming rig. A few good movies and YouTube videos are probably on the web with faint audio tracks and it is impossible to listen to them if your headphones are too far from your seat. And thus, the 800% volume boost would help you in those cases.

Click here to skip ahead to an updated volume workaround for the latest updated version of VLC (VLC 3.0 Vetinari)

How to boost the VLC volume beyond 200%

It is by default that VLC lets you scroll up to 200/400% of the volume in a media. But still for a hell lot of YouTube videos, such volume wouldn't be audible enough. So for such quiet videos, the VLC volume can be increased up to 800% by using the command prompt.

Step 1: Open a command window inside the VideoLan directory. Navigate to the VideoLan directory C:Program Files (x86)VideoLANVLC, Shift + Right Click and then select Open command window here

How To Increase Volume In Vlc Player

Or,

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Open command prompt and cd C:Program Files (x86)VideoLANVLC

Step 2: Now if you want to stream a YouTube video with a high volume, you should open the VLC player with such high volume before you stream.

Now in your command window type in vlc.exe --volume 1024

1024 can be replaced with higher levels if the video is damn quiet.

To stream the YouTube video, select Media, select Open Network Stream, and paste the URL.

Step 3: If you would like to play a movie file, you could follow the same method in the step 2 and finally open the local media file.

Workaround for new versions

For newer versions of VLC ( VLC 3.0.6 at the time of this edit) the above mentioned steps won't work. But you still can amplify the volume upto 300% by changing the value of the displayed volume in the Qt interface settings.

To change the volume setting, press Ctrl + P and then select all in the bottom left corner, as indicated in the screenshot. Then expand the Interface tree and further expand Main interfaces. Now select Qt and change the default value of Maximum Volume displayed from 125 to 200 or 300.

Increase the volume via the dynamic compressor

If you are not upto the command line hacks, you can use the built in dynamic range compressor to amplify the silent parts and compressing the louder parts. For some really quite videos, you might have to play with the compression ratio and the audio gain until you are comfortable with the sound. They dynamic compressor can be accessed from the menu bar, following Tools > Effects and Filters > Audio Effects > Compressor.

The compressor is most helpful in cases of TV shows and movies where you have subtle dialogues but loud explosions and sounds.

If you have tried all the above settings and your media file is still quite, guess now will be the time to turn on your speakers.

Note: Please be careful on opening a media file with too much noise, as it can damage your speakers and even blow them due to distortion at such high volume. And it is VLC! So please do care to reduce the volume levels before you close the player or you end up opening the next session at the same volume.

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This post was first published on March 28, 2014.



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