Force 5.1 surround sound with music

[Mounty_078]

I just bought the Logitech Z506 and they work great! However when I'm listening to music only 2 speakers and the Subwoofer work (I get that because the audio is 2.1). But is there anyway to force the audio through all 5 speakers instead just 2? I've been using VLC and my Motherboard is the Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 5 with Realtek ALC1150 115dB SNR HD Audio so I've got it hooked up 5.1.

 

[i7Baby]

Have you connected 5.1 into them? How?

 

[Mounty_078]

Have you connected 5.1 into them? How?

3 wires. A black, orange and green one. The mobo has quit a few inputs for the audio which is nice. When I test the 5.1 in the Realtek Audio HD Software all speakers work seperately so the 5.1 is working but the music is 2.1 so it won't play through all 5 speakers.

 

[-HH-]

If you're listening to music VIA youtube or what have you in GOOGLE CHROME, right click the google chrome desktop icon and click properties. Click into the 'Target' box and at the end of the text type '--disable-audio-output-resampler' if this doesn't work you can also type '--Force-wave-audio'.

Please reply if this doesn't fix.

 

[i7Baby]

Can you switch the z506 to emulate 5.1. If you only have 2.1 coming from the music, it'll need to have 5.1 synthesised.

 

[-HH-]

I reckon that if you do the fix I suggested it'll most likely push it into 5.1 anyway so frequencies will be transmitted to the rear speakers too.

 

[Mounty_078]

I reckon that if you do the fix I suggested it'll most likely push it into 5.1 anyway so frequencies will be transmitted to the rear speakers too.

Thanks for the info on Google Chrome. But I meant music when using a media player like VLC

 

[-HH-]

for VLC

Press Ctrl+P to bring up preferences.
At the bottom of the right-hand navigation select the All radio-button under the Show settings area (bottom left of the interface).
Now expand the Audio tree, select Out Modules and select DirectX.
Select your "Output device" and "Speaker configuration" from the drop down menus.
Restart VLC.

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copied from http://superuser.com/questions/292911/how-can-you-change-the-default-audio-output-in-vlc-to-5-1

 

[Mounty_078]

for VLC

Press Ctrl+P to bring up preferences.
At the bottom of the right-hand navigation select the All radio-button under the Show settings area (bottom left of the interface).
Now expand the Audio tree, select Out Modules and select DirectX.
Select your "Output device" and "Speaker configuration" from the drop down menus.
Restart VLC.

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copied from http://superuser.com/questions/292911/how-can-you-change-the-default-audio-output-in-vlc-to-5-1

I kinda did this before but I didn't expand the out modules I just changed the settings to Direct X on Out Modules so that didn't work but this actually worked! But now Chrome doesn't work. I have this: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --disable-audio-output-resampler --Force-wave-audio
Did I do something wrong?

 

[-HH-]

NONO not on Chrome, do one or the other, sorry I didn't make things clear and slowly reply