5.1 sound through headphones with music player?

5.1 works great through the headphones when you're watching a video on the net. Does not work when listening through the music player. I get an error message that says I need to turn the effects off. Ok..done what I can and still no luck. Oh yea, unplug the headphones and then try to press the 5.1 icon, and it says it can only operate in headphone mode. Any suggestions?

I'm not entirely sure what you did to turn off effects, but you'll need to...
1. stop playing your audio file
2. press menu
3. select more
4. select settings
5. select Equalizer
6. select Normal
7. press the back button (the looping arrow button)
8. select Effect
9. select Normal
That should do it. When you press the 5.1 button after doing that, you should get a slightly different sound that sounds more like 5.1.

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