Winamp and 5.1 / 7.1 Speakers

Raiden1803 · December 18th, 2004

Iv noticed that winamp has been having some issues with 5.1 / 7.1 speaker settings. iv set it to Direct Sound Right now, Im atleast able to get4 speakers working. My Center and Rear Speakers are pritty much dead too winamp (which their not. channel test works) has anyone been able to get more than 4 (or 5 speakers) at a time working? iv tried the KB 5.1 Channel Output pluggin, It works but its real. REAL staticy when i turn up the volume. . plus the fact i can only get 5 / 7 speakers working

has anyone been able to get full range surround working with winamp yet?

**Kane** · December 18th, 2004

Winamp does not mux stereo sound to 5 or more surround channels. It will only map to L/R and RL/RR. This is because there is no centre channel, so that'd have to be an interpolation. Making it sound ****.

**Shadow Lady** · December 18th, 2004

there are a few plugins to make it sound in 5.1 mode, the "KB 5.1 Channel Output" plugin, being the best for that, but on my experience it doesnt worth it, the normal output is better, even if the KB 5.1 plugin uses 5.1, the stereo wont be enhanced and then will sound only as mono actually, i dont like it.

Raiden1803 · December 18th, 2004

KB is fecked up though, Theirs so much static i got annoyed after 2 mins of use. So with an Audigy 2 ZS is their ANY way to get full 7.1 use during mp3 playback?

**Shadow Lady** · December 18th, 2004

u should be able to enable cmss on that audigy, on the eax console IIRC is better than all this plugins and that but... really making stereo to 7.1 doesnt make much more than making the sound not taht cool

Raiden1803 · December 18th, 2004

i was wondering what the hell cmss was.. ( i bought the display at circuit city so i dunno what im doin.

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**Kane** · December 18th, 2004

Creative Multi Speaker Surround

**Snake785** · December 19th, 2004

CMSS 1 is what you want to enable on your sound card (via eax console of course). However with my setup (4.1) I prefer using the Stereo Surround setting (where it just sends the stereo signal to all speaker pairs).

**DarkAurora** · December 19th, 2004

Disable the KB Plugin in winamp and just use the CMSS option in your soundblaster settings. You will get much better surround sound that way.

**hushypushy** · December 19th, 2004

ugh, CMSS blows. i dont know what the crap is wrong with Creative's software department, but their drivers and their CMSS sucks. they cant even properly do dual stereo correctly! (it doubles the subwoofer too making it sound like ****). im using my Nforce with Realtek chip just because the Audigy pissed me off in that respect. i do miss my hardware accelerated sound though

**Snake785** · December 19th, 2004

my sub sounds just fine here...I'm actually quite impressed at how well this sub sounds.

December 18th, 2004	#1 (permalink)
Raiden1803 ..... Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: in a van down by the river Posts: 2,535	Winamp and 5.1 / 7.1 Speakers Iv noticed that winamp has been having some issues with 5.1 / 7.1 speaker settings. iv set it to Direct Sound Right now, Im atleast able to get4 speakers working. My Center and Rear Speakers are pritty much dead too winamp (which their not. channel test works) has anyone been able to get more than 4 (or 5 speakers) at a time working? iv tried the KB 5.1 Channel Output pluggin, It works but its real. REAL staticy when i turn up the volume. . plus the fact i can only get 5 / 7 speakers working has anyone been able to get full range surround working with winamp yet? __________________ OS: WinXP (Sp2 Build) CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.39GHz GFX: ATi Radeon X850 PRO 256MB SOUND: SB Audigy 2 ZS Speakers : Creative Inspire T7700 CD/CD-RW: Lite-On DVDRW SOH1213S / Sony CRX 230ED RAM: 1gig DDR HD: 160gig Seagate Last edited by Raiden1803; December 18th, 2004 at 06:03.

December 18th, 2004	#2 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	Winamp does not mux stereo sound to 5 or more surround channels. It will only map to L/R and RL/RR. This is because there is no centre channel, so that'd have to be an interpolation. Making it sound ****. __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

December 18th, 2004	#3 (permalink)
Shadow Lady Advanced Newbie Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Bogotá... not that it matters... Posts: 4,979	there are a few plugins to make it sound in 5.1 mode, the "KB 5.1 Channel Output" plugin, being the best for that, but on my experience it doesnt worth it, the normal output is better, even if the KB 5.1 plugin uses 5.1, the stereo wont be enhanced and then will sound only as mono actually, i dont like it. __________________ Main Rig: Pentium Dual-Core E2160 @ 2.5GHz -- 7600GT @ 650/800MHz -- 2GB DDR2-667 4-4-4-12 -- Windows XP Pro SP3 Collecting dust: AMD Athlon XP 2600+ -- ATI Radeon 9500 Pro -- SB Live 5.1 Digital -- 2.5GB DDR 2-2-2-5 Ram -- Windows 2003 server r2 SP1

December 18th, 2004	#4 (permalink)
Raiden1803 ..... Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: in a van down by the river Posts: 2,535	KB is fecked up though, Theirs so much static i got annoyed after 2 mins of use. So with an Audigy 2 ZS is their ANY way to get full 7.1 use during mp3 playback? __________________ OS: WinXP (Sp2 Build) CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.39GHz GFX: ATi Radeon X850 PRO 256MB SOUND: SB Audigy 2 ZS Speakers : Creative Inspire T7700 CD/CD-RW: Lite-On DVDRW SOH1213S / Sony CRX 230ED RAM: 1gig DDR HD: 160gig Seagate

December 18th, 2004	#5 (permalink)
Shadow Lady Advanced Newbie Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Bogotá... not that it matters... Posts: 4,979	u should be able to enable cmss on that audigy, on the eax console IIRC is better than all this plugins and that but... really making stereo to 7.1 doesnt make much more than making the sound not taht cool __________________ Main Rig: Pentium Dual-Core E2160 @ 2.5GHz -- 7600GT @ 650/800MHz -- 2GB DDR2-667 4-4-4-12 -- Windows XP Pro SP3 Collecting dust: AMD Athlon XP 2600+ -- ATI Radeon 9500 Pro -- SB Live 5.1 Digital -- 2.5GB DDR 2-2-2-5 Ram -- Windows 2003 server r2 SP1

December 18th, 2004	#6 (permalink)
Raiden1803 ..... Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: in a van down by the river Posts: 2,535	i was wondering what the hell cmss was.. ( i bought the display at circuit city so i dunno what im doin. ) __________________ OS: WinXP (Sp2 Build) CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.39GHz GFX: ATi Radeon X850 PRO 256MB SOUND: SB Audigy 2 ZS Speakers : Creative Inspire T7700 CD/CD-RW: Lite-On DVDRW SOH1213S / Sony CRX 230ED RAM: 1gig DDR HD: 160gig Seagate

December 18th, 2004	#7 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	Creative Multi Speaker Surround __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

December 19th, 2004	#8 (permalink)
Snake785 Prepare for Descent... Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Canada Posts: 2,615	CMSS 1 is what you want to enable on your sound card (via eax console of course). However with my setup (4.1) I prefer using the Stereo Surround setting (where it just sends the stereo signal to all speaker pairs). __________________ My Computer specs: Pentium 4 2.6Ghz 512 MB of RAM Geforce FX 5700 128 MB Windows XP SP1 Click here for Flaretech.Biz Web Hosting

December 19th, 2004	#9 (permalink)
DarkAurora Back from the dead Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Seymour, TN Posts: 3,735	Disable the KB Plugin in winamp and just use the CMSS option in your soundblaster settings. You will get much better surround sound that way.

December 19th, 2004	#10 (permalink)
hushypushy the only one you've ever SEEN Join Date: May 2003 Location: San Francisco Posts: 21,837	ugh, CMSS blows. i dont know what the crap is wrong with Creative's software department, but their drivers and their CMSS sucks. they cant even properly do dual stereo correctly! (it doubles the subwoofer too making it sound like ****). im using my Nforce with Realtek chip just because the Audigy pissed me off in that respect. i do miss my hardware accelerated sound though __________________ Dedicated to mediocrity and repetition since 1994. 2008 "How Not to Post" guide

December 19th, 2004	#11 (permalink)
Snake785 Prepare for Descent... Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Canada Posts: 2,615	my sub sounds just fine here...I'm actually quite impressed at how well this sub sounds. __________________ My Computer specs: Pentium 4 2.6Ghz 512 MB of RAM Geforce FX 5700 128 MB Windows XP SP1 Click here for Flaretech.Biz Web Hosting

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