Dimmerdave

More information is needed from you. What is your set-up? Are you using a turner/amplifier? Are you using a turntable with a magnetic cartridge? Have you checked your audio cable connections? Is there a Spanish radio station in your neighborhood?

I second that notion. It would be very useful to have markers to help in copy and paste operations.

Assuming there are no adjustments on the tuner, then you will need an attenuator pad. Check out this webpage for some info - http://www.uneeda-audio.com/pads/ If what you see there sounds like too much trouble, then hook up your tuner to an amplifier and connect the speaker outputs to you computer sound board. Start off with the amplifier volume control at the lowest setting. You will find that you will need to run the volume contol at almost a quarter of the way - this is because there is an impedance mis-match. The amplifier speaker output is at an impedance of about 8 ohms; while the computer sound board line-in jacks are built for about 1000 ohms. This mismatch will not effect the recording quality, it only effects the amount of power that will be transfered to the sound board. The attenuator pad will make for a lot less space used on your desktop, but if you have an amp handy - that will work for you too. You might also be able to buy an attenuator pad at Radio Shack.

I have not fully explored the WavePad Master Ediition software yet. Your suggestion about using the batch volume normalizer may work as well.

I may not be completely understanding your problem, but I found a program that can boost the volume of an MP3 directly by doing something to the MP3 code itself. It's normally used to adjust the volume of different files to a normalized setting so you don't have to be continually adjusting the volume for different songs. I've used it and it works great. So great, you would wonder why something like this isn't included in the WavePad software.