All tracks need volume boost. What is the best way?

I recorded a 16 track album with Logic and all of the bounced mp3s are very low in volume compared to my other songs in itunes. How do I equalize all of these songs? Thanks
Salutations.
-RyConn M.D.

Well, that's my personal opinion, but you'd better export your songs one by one into aiff and then use an audio editor like Wavelab or Soundforge to analyze levels, normalize the files, if necessary and add some pre-mastering processing (like, say, exciter, master compressor, master limiter, etc). Then you can export your songs into mp3.
Similarly, after exporting into audio, you can then import the stereo-files into a Logic project and do normalizing and mastering there. And after that export into mp3.
Second way is going to the near-by mastering studio (or whatever pro studio) and ask them to do the job for you. It's relatively cheap these days. They can even fix some mixing problems, if there are any (provided you have a hard-drive with your projects at hand). And you can sit there and ask them questions and learn how to do it yourself the next time
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