Vista Surround Sound Fix!

[BeatMaster]

Unable to play MP3s in surround sound?
Rear speakers quiet?

Well here's the fix after spending the last hour trying to fix it for a friend

Tried drivers - nope there fine!

Then went into the Enhancement section as a last ditch effort to find some feature that would enable the true surround sound glory. Here is the solution:

Go to Enhancements within the Properties of the sound device
There should be an option 'Speaker Fill' tick that
Done!

Hope this helps a lot of people, god knows why it isn't set on as default!

BeatMaster

 

[Rebelius]

what do you mean by "true surround sound glory" most tunes are recorded in stereo so listening to them surround isn't "true".

just wondering what you mean.

 

[modo77]

It works in surround on default for me.

 

[BeatMaster]

what do you mean by "true surround sound glory" most tunes are recorded in stereo so listening to them surround isn't "true".

just wondering what you mean.

Figure of speech I know it's *technically* not true surround but it offers more of a surround sound effect and is better than 2.1

Some people seem to have 5.1 by default although noticed a few threads where people seem to be experience similar problems as my friend, so thought may aswell post this thread to help them out.

BeatMaster

 

[Rebelius]

but how is it playing 5.1? is there a setting somewhere that maps the front left also to the rear left and the same for the right? In XP my media players always put out a 2.0 signal, then I'd do the necessary upmixing to get sound from all speakers after it left the soundcard.

DVDs have always played 5.1 no problem - same is true for vista.

I think with my mp3s it's playing 5.1 it's just that there's nothing on 3.1 of the channels.

 

[NathanE]

It doesn't offer surround sound at all. You can't get 5.1 channels from a 2.0 channel MP3 file...

"Surround fill" simply duplicates the stereo signal and sends it to all speakers. Hence it "fills" the room with sound from more speakers.

 

[Rebelius]

yeah, I guessed that.

Where's the setting for it? I've been using the "upmix" button on my Speakers.