Sound Booster

When watching videos, users have different preferences when it comes to sound. Finding the perfect volume and rocking that for a long time is not really a possibility, as one has to take into consideration the system's sound, the headset's power, or the speaker's capabilities. Even if all these details are covered, there is one more thing that can throw a wrench into one’s settings, and that would be the video's volume. If the video is loud enough, it's easy to adjust, but what happens when the clips you are trying to watch have very low audio?

The answer can be Sound Booster — a simple Chrome extension that break that goes over the sound limits of your system and hardware and offers a 600% volume increase. Be careful with boosting it to the max, though, it can hurt your hearing.

Once installed, the extension can be accessed from the browser's dedicated menu. In order for Sound Booster to become active, one must have a tab opened with at least a video. If no clips are detected, the add-on remains dormant.

After a video is identified, the extension's UI will make the slider available, and will also showcase the clip's total runtime. The starting volume is set to 100%, but that can be changed by simply dragging the slider. Other than that, Sound Booster doesn't have anything else to offer, maybe except some advice on how to deal with videos that have running advertising segments.

Sound Booster is a straightforward extension that offers exactly what its name is advertising, and that is a way to boost a video's volume over the threshold of the system, or used hardware.