[brandondrury]

First of all, I need to know what "sound system" is. I'm thinking of that trailer thingy they haul to the fair each year. It looks like a boombox, but it's like 20 feet long. I've got a feeling that this isn't what you used to record with.

I'm assuming that cda doesn't stand for California Dental Association.
Okay, now I get it. You didn't burn a .cda file, necessarily. You burned .wav files. When you open any cd on a computer, there is a little bity file used for specifying the song length and other technical things past my needed understanding. This is called a .cda file.

Since you managed to convert thing thing to an mp3, I guess you know how to rip songs into Windows Media Player or equivalent.

The volume loudness issue is very common. I've written numerous articles about it. Modern music has been compressed to DEATH. That's just how it's done. You need to do the same when you mix to get the music to the same level as modern recordings.

So if you really want this track louder, you can go into any .wav editor, compress it, (which will knock the peaks down) and then boost the entire track. Open up a cd you like in the .wav editor.

There are a million different .wav editors out there. I'm not sure of any free ones off hand. I'd just use Audacity, if I was broke and in a hurry. It's free.

You'll want to rip the song off the cd as a .wav file. You can't just save it. You have to rip it. I think Windows Media Player can do this, but I hate that program for anything other than playback.

Then, import the song into Audacity, slap on a compressor, and smash it. Smash it until it just starts to distort and then back off a little bit.

Brandon