For much of the time using Audacity I thought that Amplify was Audacity’s terms for Normalize, my mistake. In trying to:
raise the output level of an existing MP3
keep the album art cover
did not want to save as an WAV file
did not want to have to re-encode
I decided to use MP3DirectCut so I normalized, manually cropped and “Auto Cropped” around 350 MP3 files. Some had apparent EQ boost after normalization, while others did not.
Until I explored more closely, I did not realize that Audacity’s Amplify was entirely a different function from Normalize. Has anyone experienced EQ boost using Amplify?