I have recently bought a Dell Inspiron 660 and I am using the speaker system I had with my old computer - a really good quality set of Sony 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers.

I have tested the speakers under sound settings - all speakers are showing up as working. I have also played music using Nero media player and Media Player Classic - all working fine.

However, whenever I try to play any music in Windows Media Player - the sound only comes out on two speakers?

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I'm stumped here - I know the speakers work, as evidenced by the sound test and the fact that they work with other media players, so why won't they work with Windows Media Player. Have tried a few 'fix-its' from Microsoft - nothing has worked so far.

March 31, 2015. Windows Media Player version 11 is compatible with 5.1 surround sound speaker systems. Windows Media Player will play through the speaker system that is set up on the computer once it is enabled in the Windows audio properties menu. These instructions cover how to set up 5.1 speakers on a Windows 7 system.

I am using Windows 7 (same as on my old computer - incidentally where the media player worked fine) and K-Lite fully loaded codec pack.

Anyone have any ideas - I use Windows Media Player the most and have all my songs stored there, so it's going to be a real pain if I can't use it, and it's my preferred player, but this is just annoying and frustrating.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Windows Media Player
Operating system
Developer(s)	Microsoft
Stable release	12.0.7601.17514^{[needs update]}(July 22, 2009; 10 years ago)[±]
Included with	Windows 3.0 MM and Windows 3.1 Windows 2000 to Windows 10^[a] Windows CE and Windows Mobile Mac OS 8 and 9
Replaces	ActiveMovie Control, CD Player, DVD Player (Win32 version)
Type	Media player
Website	windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/windows-media-player

Windows Media Player (WMP) is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windowsoperating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices. Editions of Windows Media Player were also released for classic Mac OS, Mac OS X and Solaris but development of these has since been discontinued.

In addition to being a media player, Windows Media Player includes the ability to rip music from and copy music to compact discs, burn recordable discs in Audio CD format or as data discs with playlists such as an MP3 CD, synchronize content with a digital audio player (MP3 player) or other mobile devices, and enable users to purchase or rent music from a number of online music stores.

Windows Media Player replaced an earlier application called Media Player, adding features beyond simple video or audio playback.

Windows Media Player 11 is available for Windows XP and included in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. The default file formats are Windows Media Video (WMV), Windows Media Audio (WMA), and Advanced Systems Format (ASF), and its own XML based playlist format called Windows Playlist (WPL). The player is also able to utilize a digital rights management service in the form of Windows Media DRM.

Windows Media Player 12 is the most recent version of Windows Media Player. It was released on October 22, 2009 along with Windows 7 and has not been made available for previous versions of Windows nor has it been updated since for Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.^[1]^[2] These later versions of Windows instead use Groove Music (for audio) and Microsoft Movies & TV (for video) as the default playback applications for most media; Windows Media Player is still included as a Windows component. Windows RT does not run Windows Media Player.

2Features
- 2.3Format support
4Other versions

History[edit]

Media Player 5

The first version of Windows Media Player appeared in 1991, when Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions was released.^[3] Originally called Media Player, this component was included with 'Multimedia PC'-compatible machines but not available for retail sale. It was capable of playing .mmm animation files, and could be extended to support other formats.^[4] It used MCI to handle media files. Being a component of Windows, Media Player shows the same version number as that of the version Windows with which it was included.

Microsoft continually produced new programs to play media files. In November of the following year, Video for Windows was introduced with the ability to play digital video files in an AVIcontainer format,^[5] with codec support for RLE and Video1, and support for playing uncompressed files. Indeo 3.2 was added in a later release. Video for Windows was first available as a free add-on to Windows 3.1, and later integrated into Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0. In 1995, Microsoft released ActiveMovie with DirectX Media SDK. ActiveMovie incorporates a new way of dealing with media files, and adds support for streaming media (which the original Media Player could not handle). In 1996, ActiveMovie was renamed DirectShow.^[6] However, Media Player continued to come with Windows until Windows XP, in which it was officially renamed Windows Media Player v5.1.^[7] ('v5.1' is the version number of Windows XP.)

In 1999, Windows Media Player's versioning broke away from that of Windows itself. Windows Media Player 6.4 came as an out-of-band update for Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0 that co-existed with Media Player and became a built-in component of Windows 2000, Windows ME and Windows XP with an mplayer2.exe stub allowing to use this built-in instead of newer versions.^[8] Windows Media Player 7.0 and its successors also came in the same fashion, replacing each other but leaving Media Player and Windows Media Player 6.4 intact. Windows XP is the only operating system to have three different versions of Windows Media Player (v5.1, v6.4 and v8) side by side. All versions branded Windows Media Player (instead of simply Media Player) support DirectShow codecs. Windows Media Player version 7 was a large revamp, with a new user interface, visualizations and increased functionality. Windows Vista, however, dropped older versions of Windows Media Player in favor of v11.

Beginning with Windows Vista, Windows Media Player supports the Media Foundation framework besides DirectShow; as such it plays certain types of media using Media Foundation as well as some types of media using DirectShow.^[

Dolby Surround Windows Media Player 11