Title might be a little bit misleading. I used to have an iPod, I loved it, had all of my songs on it. The best thing? Through iTunes, I could change the base volume to exceed 100%, up to 200%. So music could be played VERY loud on a pair of really nice headphones, and it was pure joy.

Sadly, I have lost my iPod. *cries* I have a phone that I can put music on, but it's not an iPhone, and it can't sync with iTunes. I've tried. It just doesn't work. Anyway, I've put music on it, and I turned the volume up to max, and it's..pathetic. I can hear myself talk with the headphones on while playing the music on full blast. Any self respecting listener of music knows that is absolutely unacceptable. If i can hear myself talk over the music while I have cuffed ear Beats by Dre headphones on, it's just pathetic.

It's a counter up to level 15, and 15 being the highest volume the phone will go. My question is this: is there any way to increase the volume of the song as the source..instead of on the song? So while the phone says 15, max, the volume is actually much louder?

Like..increase the max volume at the source of the file so that the phone will still say max 15 yes, but I want the max of what the song is to be higher so it's louder on the phone. Is this possible? Am I even making any sense? o.o

You can do this with iTunes, resulting in absurdly loud music on your iPod, but I don't know how it does it, so I can't figure it out.

The phone is a http://androidheadlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/galaxy-s-ii-hands-on-06.jpg. (the one on the right, the rounded one)

A couple things:

• You don't want to increase digital volume past 0 dBFS (which is these days almost always the default peak volume). That causes clipping. You're not actually going to increase real volume that way, just cut off the peaks of notes so it's louder more often (and also make it sound terrible).
  
• You are listening way too loud if you can't hear yourself talk using Beats. Beats aren't very good at isolating noise. They rely on active noise cancelling for that, and their noise cancelling isn't especially good either.
  
• Any self respective listener of music protects his ears and the integrity of his files, which means no high volume and no permanent equalization like you used to use.