Speaker question

rANCOR hUNTER · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:04 am Post subject: Speaker question

I just got a new sound card and logitech 5.1 speakers. When I play mp3s through either winamp or wmp or itunes the sound only comes through the 2 front speakers. Is there a way i can configure the speakers to play form all 5? My brother has 5.1 speakers and the music comes from all 5 of his.

PS I know the other 3 work cuz they work in games.
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Simpleman · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:11 am Post subject:

Do you have 5.1 sound on your card ? If so is it configured for 5 speakers ?
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rANCOR hUNTER · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:32 pm Post subject:

Yea my card has support for 7.1,6.1 and 5.1. The 5.1 works in games but not in any media player.
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DJ George · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:58 pm Post subject:

What are you using for your media player? It is usually a setting in there to play it in all 5 speakers.
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Mike · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:22 pm Post subject:

sound cards have different configurations for different types of sound, music is probably set to 2 speakers. try looking thru you soundcard software for music options.
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DJ George · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:51 pm Post subject:

Actually, most soundcards handle the speakers the same, it is the software that is causing his problem. What is happening is that since his program (winamp I am guessing from his sig) is only transmitting the info on2 channels instead of 5, then only the two speakers are getting data. THere are 2 places to look, one is in the sound settings in your control panel, make sure you have 5.1 speakers selected, the other would be in winamp's config (I dont know where) and make sure it is set to the right speakers. Usually windows will automatically take music and play it on all channels as if it was stereo, but if it does not realize it is a music program (and you know how windows is) then it will play the music exactly as it is told, which is stereo and not 5.1
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rANCOR hUNTER · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:51 pm Post subject:

Know anything about itunes? I'm switching to that.
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DJ George · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:00 pm Post subject:

I dont know much about iTunes, but I have a friend who uses it with a 5.1 card, so I will talk to him and see
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rANCOR hUNTER · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:40 pm Post subject:

WOOOT!!! I got it guys! It was disabled in one of the programs that i skipped out on installing from the disc for the sound card. Thanks for your concern!
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Stevo · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:49 pm Post subject:

I thought this was going to be one of Speaker's confusion threads...

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Kahlan Amnell · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:42 pm Post subject:

I thought someone had a question for Speaker hehe
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bullseye lespaul · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:43 pm Post subject:

lol me 2

Rebel_Rouser · Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:03 am Post subject:

Well I thought it had something to do with speaker period.

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