{"id":550,"date":"2020-10-16T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T19:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/?post_type=knowledgebase&p=550"},"modified":"2020-10-16T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T19:36:09","slug":"how-to-enable-5-1-sound","status":"publish","type":"knowledgebase","link":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/knowledge-base\/mediamonkey-playback\/how-to-enable-5-1-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Enable 5.1 Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you have a soundcard and speakers capable of 5.1 sound, this can be enabled via the included DirectSound output plugin:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Set the correct speaker setup configuration in Windows, and set hardware acceleration for audio to ‘full’ via Windows Control Panel > Sounds and audio devices > Speaker settings > Advanced)<\/li>
  2. Go into your soundcard’s control panel and make sure 5.1\/7.1 speakers are selected instead of stereo speakers.<\/li>
  3. In MediaMonkey, go to Tools > Options > Output Plug-ins<\/strong> from the Main Menus and enable DirectSound as the output plug-in if it isn’t already.<\/li>
  4. Click the Configure<\/strong> button to configure the plugin and enable hardware acceleration (in MediaMonkey 2.5 you’ll need to switch to the ‘Device’ tab).<\/li>
  5. Make sure your sound card\/chip is selected as the Output Device.
    Any changes will take effect after playback is restarted.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Note: If the ‘hardware acceleration’ checkbox is greyed out in MediaMonkey 2.5, make sure that the sound card drivers are up-to-date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    If that doesn’t work, try upgrading to the latest version of DirectX at:
    http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/directx\/default.mspx<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    For Creative SB Live & Audigy sound cards, try enabling CMSS in the EAX Control Panel, and remember to move the Front\/Rear slider down (e.g. from 100% to 0%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    If that still doesn’t work, you can try the following alternative output plugins (untested):
    o     https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/winampmatrixmix\/files\/WinampMatrixMixer\/matrixmixer_0_9_163d\/<\/a>
    o     https:\/\/www.softpedia.com\/get\/Multimedia\/Audio\/Audio-Plugins\/Wave-5point1-Output.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If you have a soundcard and speakers capable of 5.1 sound, this can be enabled via the included DirectSound output plugin: Set the correct speaker setup configuration in Windows, and set hardware acceleration for audio to ‘full’ via Windows Control Panel > Sounds and audio devices > Speaker settings > Advanced) Go into your soundcard’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","knowledgebase_cat":[113],"knowledgebase_tag":[102,103],"class_list":["post-550","knowledgebase","type-knowledgebase","status-publish","hentry","knowledgebase_cat-mediamonkey-playback","knowledgebase_tag-mmw4","knowledgebase_tag-mmw5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/knowledgebase"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/550\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"knowledgebase_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase_cat?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"knowledgebase_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase_tag?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}