thanks seany, that was really helpful, i just found speaker fill in the scoll
box and checked it, worked like a charm, thanx again.

"seany" wrote:

Are you sure "enhancements" isn't available to you? I thought it was part of
windows....right click on your speaker icon - select "playback
devices" - highlight your speakers in that window (there might be headphones
there, as well) - click on the "properties" button on the bottom right -
select the enhancements tab.
Above & Beyond


"Tom" wrote:


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"Tom" wrote in message
news Hi,

I have the Vista driver for my Audigy 2 sound card from Creative (I
didn't install the software as I don't need it). Yet when I play music
through any MP, it only plays 2.1 (stereo+subwoofer). Interestingly, I
can go into the sound properties to test the device, then when clicking
on all of the speaker icons, the sound works through all of them. Even if
use the properties to test it as a whole (sequencing the sound to all
speakers automatically as 5.1), all of the speakers put out the sound
through that test and is successful.

Anyone have a clue to why WMP or any other media type player will not
play 5.1?

Are you sure the sound source is encoded for Dolby digital? Most music CDs
or mp3s are not. Try playing a movie DVD that has 5.1 sound recording.


Well, I see your point, but when I had XP on this PC with the same hardware,
it played through all speakers no matter the format. Most of my music is
stored on this PC and is data format (MP3, WMA, etc), and they all played
normally.

I did try playing the movie and as you suspected, it played through all of
the speakers in 5.1. but it is interesting that this no longer plays as was
in XP. Oh well, guess I have to live with it until future considerations. My
music still sounds great though, just to add..