Sound from front speakers only

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Hi there guys!

I've recently installed Win 7 64 bit and I'm having troubles playing sound through all my speakers. I have a Gigabyte Mobo using Realtek 7.1 audio chip. I downloaded the Win 7 x64 drivers from the motherboard website including the sound drivers. When playing any music of video, I can only hear it through the front two speakers only.

I have the realtek audio manager and I can test the speaker configuration and it's fine. The test sound plays on each speaker, but i don't understand why Win 7 is only playing it through 2? I am using Windows Media Player to play music.

I've looked around for a solution but I couldn't find one. I've gone to the control panel > sound > and made sure that 7.1 was set.

Is there anything more I can do to get it to work?

Any help would be gratefully recieived.
 

Ian

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Sometimes MP3's and music files will only play through the front channels, as they are only recorded in stereo. You can often force playback through all speakers though (have you tried the "Speaker fill" option in the realtek panel?).

In another thread, Nibiru2012 suggested running another media player called AIMP2 which solved a similar problem : https://www.w7forums.com/only-front-speakers-work-5-1-windows-7-a-t1664.html
 

Nibiru2012

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You can download AIMP2 from here: http://www.aimp.ru/index.php?do=download

I can guarantee that you'll like this way better that Windows Media Player!

Main features and functions


    • Multiformat Playback:
      MP1, MP2, MP3, MPC, MP+, AAC, AC3, OGG, FLAC, APE, WavPack, Speex, WAV, CDA, WMA, S3M, XM, MOD, IT, MO3, MTM, UMX
    • Great functionality and user-friendly interface
    • Creating bookmarks and playback queue
    • 18-band equalizer and built-in sound effects
      Reverb, Flanger, Chorus, Pitch, Tempo, Echo, Speed
    • 32-bit audio processing
      For the best quality!
    • Work with multiple playlists
      While one plays - you work with another
    • Support for plugins
      You can add new utils or extend already existing
    • Multi-user mode support
      Are several users working with one computer? This is no problem!
    • Multilanguage interface
    • Hotkeys
      Configure local and global hotkeys as you wish!
    • Files search
      Search files on all opened playlists
    • Flexible programm options


Internet radio


    • Internet radio
      Listen and capture internet-radio stations to OGG / WAV / MP3 formats
    • Online Radio Browser
      View catalogs of Shoutcast and Icecast services


CoverArt Downloader


    • CoverArt Downloader
      Search and download album covers from the Internet


Simple Scheduler


    • Alarm Clock
    • Auto shutdown the computer
      You can sleep while listening favorite music, just set the timer to shutdown the computer at given time or on playback finish.


Tag Editor


    • Tag Editor
      You can easily edit tags of audio files and rename group of files, sort files by template or apply tags to a group of files


Audio Library


Audio Library
Represents the music files organizer, which allows you easily organize your music, set marks for listened Tracks, keeping playback statistics.
 

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