Music not playing through all my speakers.

2009-02-21 12:31:49

#1

FFLink: There is.; +1,380|6955|Devon, England

Ok, so I installed Vista (read: Foolishly) earlier to sort out some hard drive issues and to give DX10 a go.

Anyway. I've got 5.1 set up and working (I can send sounds through all speakers), but my music only uses the front speakers and no sound at all comes from the rear ones. It did when I had XP.

I've used WMP and Foobar2000 to try it, so I don't think it's just a WMP (My preferred player) issue.

Any ideas? I've gone through all settings to make sure 5.1 is selected, the rear speakers aren't muted, it's just as though my music applications don't use them.

It's nothing major, but I like them being used. If there's a program that will use them, then I am happy to switch media players.

Cheers in advance

2009-02-21 12:41:13

#2

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6461|Winland

Music is stereo, it isn't supposed to play through more than two speakers and possible sub.

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP

2009-02-21 12:45:59

#3

Microwave: _; +515|6919|Loughborough Uni / Leeds, UK

If you have an X-fi soundcard there's a feature which upmixes the music to surround. Works pretty well.

2009-02-21 12:52:06

#4

tupla_s: .; +455|6856|Finland

Check your sound card settings. There's probably a setting to upmix stereo to surround.

Looks like this on X-Fi

2009-02-21 12:52:45

#5

FFLink: There is.; +1,380|6955|Devon, England

Freezer7Pro wrote:
Music is stereo, it isn't supposed to play through more than two speakers and possible sub.

Well it did in my XP install.

I must have forced it somehow...

2009-02-21 12:54:13

#6

FFLink: There is.; +1,380|6955|Devon, England

tupla_s wrote:
Check your sound card settings. There's probably a setting to upmix stereo to surround.

Looks like this on X-Fi
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/ … /upmix.jpg

Aha, found it.

@Stereo Fill@ (That's reminded me, must change keyboard layout...) on Realtek. Cheers

Sounds so much better...

Last edited by FFLink13 (2009-02-21 12:54:33)

2009-02-21 12:56:22

#7

rammunition: Fully Loaded; +143|6125

i have 4 speakers on my computer with vista, you have to configure it with realtek, or whatever

2009-02-21 12:57:01

#8

SpIk3y: Minister of Silly Walks; +67|6403|New Jersey

I can play music in 5.1 with all applications on Vista x64 so it's definitely possible. In my case, I just set my headset drivers (my headset actually has rear surround speakers) to always use a 5.1 configuration.

2009-02-21 13:02:53

#9

liquidat0r: wtf.; +2,223|6891|UK

SpIk3y wrote:
I can play music in 5.1 with all applications on Vista x64 so it's definitely possible. In my case, I just set my headset drivers (my headset actually has rear surround speakers) to always use a 5.1 configuration.

It's not really 5.1. The rear speakers will just be chucking out what the front l/r speakers are.

2009-02-21 13:07:33

#10

SpIk3y: Minister of Silly Walks; +67|6403|New Jersey

liquidat0r wrote:
SpIk3y wrote:
I can play music in 5.1 with all applications on Vista x64 so it's definitely possible. In my case, I just set my headset drivers (my headset actually has rear surround speakers) to always use a 5.1 configuration.
It's not really 5.1. The rear speakers will just be chucking out what the front l/r speakers are.

I realize that, but what I'm trying to say is that all 6 speakers have sound coming out of them opposed to just the 2 fronts, center, and bass.

2009-02-21 13:15:17

#11

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6717|The Twilight Zone

if you do have xfi try changing modes

https://www.shrani.si/f/3H/7h/45GTw71U/untitled-1.png

2009-02-21 17:28:59

#12

ElementalDragon: Member; +6|5834

There's also the fact that Vista is automatically configured to have 2/2.1 speaker output.

Right click the speaker icon in the system tray, click Playback Devices
Click on the speakers, and click the Configure button.

And saying you "foolishly" installed Vista is bound for a flaming. Vista is better than XP in just about every way. I go much longer on a single Vista install than i ever did on XP. XP i was practically formatting every month or two, because it would just get to the point where it seemed like everything was gradually slowing down with no end in sight. I'll go a couple months on Vista without any noticable slowing. Vista didn't really have any issues since the beginning when it was released. The only issues Vista had was humanity's laziness in trying to get it to work correctly on their system. People just thought "Well.... if i install it, it should run the way i am thinking it should run". I'll admit.... i had one (count: ONE) issue when i installed it after it was released (which i've legally owned a copy of Vista Ultimate since shortly after it's release). That was the whole thing with video driver instability ("Display driver stopped responding but has been recovered" stuff), which caused further instability. What'd i have to do to fix it? set my BIOS settings back to pretty much their defaults.... only changing what i HAD to change to get it to boot. Pretty much the only thing i had changed was manually setting my RAM speeds to what they were rated for, since they were always running under spec if i had everything set to Auto. Set everything to Auto, and Vista ran like a dream.

2009-02-21 17:37:07

#13

Little BaBy JESUS: m8; +394|6412|'straya

liquidat0r wrote:
SpIk3y wrote:
I can play music in 5.1 with all applications on Vista x64 so it's definitely possible. In my case, I just set my headset drivers (my headset actually has rear surround speakers) to always use a 5.1 configuration.
It's not really 5.1. The rear speakers will just be chucking out what the front l/r speakers are.

mine dont. my 5.1 speakers have different sound coming out of every speaker.

it might just be how i have it configured through my soundcard.

2009-02-21 17:39:54

#14

liquidat0r: wtf.; +2,223|6891|UK

Little BaBy JESUS wrote:
liquidat0r wrote:
SpIk3y wrote:
I can play music in 5.1 with all applications on Vista x64 so it's definitely possible. In my case, I just set my headset drivers (my headset actually has rear surround speakers) to always use a 5.1 configuration.
It's not really 5.1. The rear speakers will just be chucking out what the front l/r speakers are.
mine dont. my 5.1 speakers have different sound coming out of every speaker.

it might just be how i have it configured through my soundcard.

As far as I can tell, pretty much all music comes in Stereo, so I'm not quite sure how you can achieve that.

2009-02-21 17:42:27

#15

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6461|Winland

Little BaBy JESUS wrote:
liquidat0r wrote:
SpIk3y wrote:
I can play music in 5.1 with all applications on Vista x64 so it's definitely possible. In my case, I just set my headset drivers (my headset actually has rear surround speakers) to always use a 5.1 configuration.
It's not really 5.1. The rear speakers will just be chucking out what the front l/r speakers are.
mine dont. my 5.1 speakers have different sound coming out of every speaker.

it might just be how i have it configured through my soundcard.

That's just some weird emulation. Your music is most probably just stereo.

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP

2009-02-21 21:40:44

#16

ElementalDragon: Member; +6|5834

More than likely CMSS-3D or something like that. Only way i know of to get full 5.1 music is with DVD-Audio discs. sadly that format didn't really go anywhere. Only have one album on DVD.... Disturbed - Believe. sounds AWESOME!

2009-02-21 22:03:11

#17

Little BaBy JESUS: m8; +394|6412|'straya

Freezer7Pro wrote:
Little BaBy JESUS wrote:
liquidat0r wrote:

It's not really 5.1. The rear speakers will just be chucking out what the front l/r speakers are.
mine dont. my 5.1 speakers have different sound coming out of every speaker.

it might just be how i have it configured through my soundcard.
That's just some weird emulation. Your music is most probably just stereo.

yer i know. i read that it splits the channels or something.

2009-02-21 22:30:31

#18

Scorpion0x17: can detect anyone's visible post count...; +691|7029|Cambridge (UK)

Music can be 5.1...

2009-02-21 22:56:27

#19

Cheez: Herman is a warmaphrodite; +1,027|6702|King Of The Islands

On a related note, does anyone know how to get CMSS going on Vista for an Audigy 2? Alls I got is their crappy version of ProLogic, no StereoSurround like in XP.

My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.

2009-02-21 23:43:25

#20

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6461|Winland

Scorpion0x17 wrote:
Music can be 5.1...

But 99.99% of it isn't.

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP

2009-02-22 00:18:01

#21

TheDonkey: Eat my bearrrrrrrrrrr, Tonighttt; +163|5981|Vancouver, BC, Canada

liquidat0r wrote:
SpIk3y wrote:
I can play music in 5.1 with all applications on Vista x64 so it's definitely possible. In my case, I just set my headset drivers (my headset actually has rear surround speakers) to always use a 5.1 configuration.
It's not really 5.1. The rear speakers will just be chucking out what the front l/r speakers are.

False.

On Realtek drivers, it adds in some echo and attempts to segregate higher frequencies to the back(which imo ends up sounding like shit)
On Soundblaster Audigy drivers, it does a really good job or segregating the perfect frequencies to the backs.

2009-02-22 00:56:30

#22

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6461|Winland

TheDonkey wrote:
liquidat0r wrote:
SpIk3y wrote:
I can play music in 5.1 with all applications on Vista x64 so it's definitely possible. In my case, I just set my headset drivers (my headset actually has rear surround speakers) to always use a 5.1 configuration.
It's not really 5.1. The rear speakers will just be chucking out what the front l/r speakers are.
False.

On Realtek drivers, it adds in some echo and attempts to segregate higher frequencies to the back(which imo ends up sounding like shit)
On Soundblaster Audigy drivers, it does a really good job or segregating the perfect frequencies to the backs.

So it's chucking out half of what the L/R speakers are. So much better.

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP

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