5.1 Surround sound not working in iTunes any suggestions?

My 5.1 surround sound will not work with iTunes it only plays out of the front left and front right speaker. In other programs it runs fine any suggestions on how to make it work in iTunes?

All my players (WMP, Realplayer, AvRack) play 5.1 surround except iTunes.
I've tried the Quicktime Pro adjustments as posted. No luck.
Does Apple post here?
From all the surround ?'s, it seems the player won't do surround anymore?
thanks,
Scot - MarginCall

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Any ideas why it shuts down the rear speakers?

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9Soundblaster X-Fi Surround sound not working!!!! HELP!
!!! officially i hate creative to the what was supposed to be simple registration which in itself annoyed me to now the speakers i have been using for a longggg time for the past 4 days has been bothering me..
Using a Creative Soundblaster X-fi ?sound card with a 7. surround sound speaker set-up and windows vista ultimate (32bit) the sound refuses to come out of all the speakers during the channel test it sometimes picks up certain speakers but never all of them and the sound is pretty much coming out of the left speaker only i've tried uninstalling all the drivers installing every driver i can find together with the console launchers i've changed the config settings in windows itself which doesnt help uninstalled all codecs bought another x-fi card (i was getting frustrated) still nothing the only thing i havent done is re-install windows which i refuse to do because of some creative defect!
I hope someone has a solution or any advice would help i've also used dri've cleaner and sweeper to clear all data from the registry etc rebooted etc etc etc still no luck....
Sort it out creative!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!

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iTunes doesn't work with my 5.1 surround sound setup, i was wondering if other people have had this problem, and if so how do i fix it. Any help is appreciated. Thanks
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All my players (WMP, Realplayer, AvRack) play 5.1 surround except iTunes.
I've tried the Quicktime Pro adjustments as posted. No luck.
Does Apple post here?
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surround sound works on all my other programs like windows media players and for some reason itunes doesnt detect it! i really need this to gert working. sounds ways better with surround sound

Did some tests...
If I change the default audio device to the integrated audio device in the mainboard I get the same. Changing the bitrate in itunes or in the windows settings does not help either...
Anyone has a similar problem?
Or anyone has a similar setup and actually gets surround sound from itunes?
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I'm writing this as my last ditch attempt to solve my problem.
Recently I bought a 5.1 Onkyo AV Receiver, model HT-R558 as for the audio output of my machine.
I have connected the device components, however when connected to my Mac using a TOSLINK cable, all i recieve is stereo sound through the front left, center, and front right speakers. - The rear speakers give no output, and the subwoofer only works in iTunes.
As far as I was aware the process was as follows:
Mac Pro with output set to Digital Out connected to the digital out port --> Optical/Toslink Cable --> connected to receiver (Onkyo HT-R558 through optical in on receiver.
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I have tried a system utility called Perian, but no luck, also i have found articles saying this can be fixed with Terminal, no luck either.
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2. Add a PCI Express compatible sound card, or use an external card (requires additional hardware purchases.)
3. Use only stereo capable units with the machine (as anything with higher speaker configurations requires use of Pro Logic II from the receiver/amplifier; not to mention sounds terrible.)
Until, or if this is ever fixed I will stay with option 2, as it doesn't require use of additional software just to use audio, allows me to use the respective amplifier fully, and also sounds better.
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I finally have sound thanks to this site!...
Essentially:
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"Open iPad “Settings” -> “General”, if “Use Side Switch to: ” is set to “Mute”, then make sure your iPad’s Side Switch is not turned on.
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I have the Corsair Vengeance 2000 wireless 7.1 headset for 3 years now.
In Windows I had some driver issues and in Linux I never really bothered and forgot about it.
So this headset supports surround sound, it's even in the product name, but Linux won't output it.
PulseAudio shows the following entries for the headset:
- Digital Output (S/PDIF) Vengeance 2000
- Analog Output Vengeance 2000
Both of these only show the "Balance" slider, and a greyed out/disabled "Fade" and "Subwoofer" channel. When testing, it only shows left and right channels to test.
Alsamixer only shows a "PCM" channel of which I can change volume, but nothing else. From what I understand it should show all 8 channels that come with 7.1 surround.
It also says the chip is "USB Mixer".
pamixer --list-sources
2 "alsa_input.usb-Corsair_Vengeance_2000-00-V2000.analog-mono" "Vengeance 2000 Analog Mono"
10 "alsa_output.usb-Corsair_Vengeance_2000-00-V2000.iec958-stereo.monitor" "Monitor of Vengeance 2000 Digital Stereo (IEC958)"
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EDIT: "sudo lsusb -v" output:
Bus 003 Device 008: ID 1b1c:0a04 Corsair
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 1.10
bDeviceClass 0
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x1b1c Corsair
idProduct 0x0a04
bcdDevice 2.00
iManufacturer 3 Corsair
iProduct 4 Vengeance 2000
iSerial 0
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 233
bNumInterfaces 4
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0x80
(Bus Powered)
MaxPower 100mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 0
bInterfaceClass 1 Audio
bInterfaceSubClass 1 Control Device
bInterfaceProtocol 0
iInterface 1 Vengeance 2000
AudioControl Interface Descriptor:
bLength 10
bDescriptorType 36
bDescriptorSubtype 1 (HEADER)
bcdADC 1.00
wTotalLength 71
bInCollection 2
baInterfaceNr( 0) 1
baInterfaceNr( 1) 2
AudioControl Interface Descriptor:
bLength 12
bDescriptorType 36
bDescriptorSubtype 2 (INPUT_TERMINAL)
bTerminalID 32
wTerminalType 0x0201 Microphone
bAssocTerminal 0
bNrChannels 1
wChannelConfig 0x0000
iChannelNames 0
iTerminal 0
AudioControl Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 36
bDescriptorSubtype 6 (FEATURE_UNIT)
bUnitID 4
bSourceID 32
bControlSize 1
bmaControls( 0) 0x03
Mute Control
Volume Control
bmaControls( 1) 0x00
iFeature 0
AudioControl Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 36
bDescriptorSubtype 3 (OUTPUT_TERMINAL)
bTerminalID 64
wTerminalType 0x0101 USB Streaming
bAssocTerminal 0
bSourceID 4
iTerminal 0
AudioControl Interface Descriptor:
bLength 12
bDescriptorType 36
bDescriptorSubtype 2 (INPUT_TERMINAL)
bTerminalID 48
wTerminalType 0x0101 USB Streaming
bAssocTerminal 0
bNrChannels 2
wChannelConfig 0x0003
Left Front (L)
Right Front (R)
iChannelNames 0
iTerminal 0
AudioControl Interface Descriptor:
bLength 10
bDescriptorType 36
bDescriptorSubtype 6 (FEATURE_UNIT)
bUnitID 3
bSourceID 48
bControlSize 1
bmaControls( 0) 0x03
Mute Control
Volume Control
bmaControls( 1) 0x00
bmaControls( 2) 0x00
iFeature 0
AudioControl Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 36
bDescriptorSubtype 3 (OUTPUT_TERMINAL)
bTerminalID 16
wTerminalType 0x0301 Speaker
bAssocTerminal 0
bSourceID 3
iTerminal 0
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 1
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 0
bInterfaceClass 1 Audio
bInterfaceSubClass 2 Streaming
bInterfaceProtocol 0
iInterface 0
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 1
bAlternateSetting 1
bNumEndpoints 1
bInterfaceClass 1 Audio
bInterfaceSubClass 2 Streaming
bInterfaceProtocol 0
iInterface 0
AudioStreaming Interface Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 36
bDescriptorSubtype 1 (AS_GENERAL)
bTerminalLink 64
bDelay 0 frames
wFormatTag 1 PCM
AudioStreaming Interface Descriptor:
bLength 14
bDescriptorType 36
bDescriptorSubtype 2 (FORMAT_TYPE)
bFormatType 1 (FORMAT_TYPE_I)
bNrChannels 1
bSubframeSize 2
bBitResolution 16
bSamFreqType 2 Discrete
tSamFreq[ 0] 44100
tSamFreq[ 1] 48000
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 13
Transfer Type Isochronous
Synch Type Synchronous
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0090 1x 144 bytes
bInterval 1
bRefresh 0
bSynchAddress 0
AudioControl Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 37
bDescriptorSubtype 1 (EP_GENERAL)
bmAttributes 0x01
Sampling Frequency
bLockDelayUnits 0 Undefined
wLockDelay 0 Undefined
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 2
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 0
bInterfaceClass 1 Audio
bInterfaceSubClass 2 Streaming
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Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
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bAlternateSetting 1
bNumEndpoints 0
bInterfaceClass 1 Audio
bInterfaceSubClass 2 Streaming
bInterfaceProtocol 0
iInterface 0
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 2
bAlternateSetting 2
bNumEndpoints 1
bInterfaceClass 1 Audio
bInterfaceSubClass 2 Streaming
bInterfaceProtocol 0
iInterface 0
AudioStreaming Interface Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 36
bDescriptorSubtype 1 (AS_GENERAL)
bTerminalLink 48
bDelay 0 frames
wFormatTag 1 PCM
AudioStreaming Interface Descriptor:
bLength 14
bDescriptorType 36
bDescriptorSubtype 2 (FORMAT_TYPE)
bFormatType 1 (FORMAT_TYPE_I)
bNrChannels 2
bSubframeSize 2
bBitResolution 16
bSamFreqType 2 Discrete
tSamFreq[ 0] 44100
tSamFreq[ 1] 48000
Endpoint Descriptor:
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Transfer Type Isochronous
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bSynchAddress 0
AudioControl Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 37
bDescriptorSubtype 1 (EP_GENERAL)
bmAttributes 0x01
Sampling Frequency
bLockDelayUnits 0 Undefined
wLockDelay 0 Undefined
Interface Descriptor:
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Report Descriptors:
** UNAVAILABLE **
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can't get debug descriptor: Resource temporarily unavailable
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(Bus Powered)
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Most of those "surround" headsets only have two channels, and the "surround" sound is emulated by the driver, which I guess does not have a linux version.
This is probably the reason why you only see a stereo device - it's what it is on the the hardware level. What the linked "solution" does is, it tells pulseaudio to use 8 channels per default and enables remixing both regular channels and LFE. This leads to pulseaudio downmixing the 8 channels to 2 to match the numbers of your speakers. Essentially, this is what the windows driver should be doing, so if it sounds different, it's probably a matter of different implementation/enhancements the dolby driver includes.
Bottom line: you can't have 8 channels on a device which only has 2 channels on the hardware level. This is why I went for a Roccat Kave back then - it has 6 physical speakers, 3 on each side.

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