Not sure if this what you want but its how I sorted the issue for me. What the Sound card will do is upmix any 2.0 audio into 5.1/7.1 and pass it over optical lead. Then Buy a Sound card with either off them options I use a Asus Xonar DS Nice price Thank you for your consideration of this feature request!Īm guessing you using the On-board audio? If so you need to buy a Sound card With Dolby Digital Live or DTS Connect <- See what one you sound system supports. Too much work when it could be accomplished and this physical configuration must be updated each and every time I switch between audio and movies. Requires physically maintaining a dip switch and also several button presses on my receiver's remote. Too difficult? already accomplishes this with its online audio player! Note that my audio equipment has the capability of forcing output to two channels between the PC and the receiver, which my receiver will then up-mix, but this I would like to see WMC/WMP either 'automagically' perform the 'up mix' or provide the user with an option to enable/disable it when 2-channel Stereo audio content is played. Media Center even has an Audio setup in which the end user configures the audio configuration to either Stereo, 5.1, or 7.1 yet music is still output over only two channels! In order for this to happen, WMP/WMC would need to 'up mix' the stereo signal to take full advantage of my physical speaker configuration (as specified in my Windows' Playback Devices configuration, which Windows is able to discern from the capabilities of When I playĢ-channel music (MP3s, WMAs, etc.) from Windows Media Player (WMP) and Windows Media Center (WMC) both in Windows 7 and Windows 8, I only hear music from the left and right main speakers, *not* the subwoofer not the rear surround speakers. My home theater PC outputs to my home theater receiver (which is a 2012-model Sony 5.1/7.1 receiver) via HDMI.

My audio content (MP3s, WMAs, etc.) are of course all 2-channel stereo format (left channel, right channel). Please consider this for a future update and/or the next version of Windows.įeature Request: 'Ability to Configure Stereo Up-Mix Capability in Windows Media Center and/or Windows Media Player from 2-channel Stereo to 5.1/7.1 Surround so Stereo MP3/WMA audio files output to *all* speakers in my system, not just the left and This is a feature that I had strongly hoped would make it to Media Center in Windows 8, but didn't.

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