winamp not using surround sound!

[mystvearn]

I have combined a 2 sepaker 1 subwoofer with a 2 speaker= two front and two rear. When I open aplications like WMP9, games, winxp startup all speakers are in use maning there is sound coming out from all of it. But for winamp only 2 front and subwoofer in use-the two rear are not in use. I don't know what else to do to enable it. The weird thing is that when I open mp3 in wmp9-it works. Now how do you make all the speakers work using winamp?

My sound card- C-media(creative) built in motherboard of a MSI GNB MAX-i7205 that supports up to 6 channels +1 subwoofer. Speakers are
Altec lansing 221-2 speakers(front) 1 subwoofer
normal speaker -2(rear)

I like using winamp cause its the only mp3 player I know that sits in the taskbar and do not clutter my start bar.

[fatboyjim]

CTRL+P in Winamp to bring up Preferences

Go to Plugins --> Output and make sure that Directsound output is selected

Some of my MP3s don't make any sound on the rear speakers

Jim

[mystvearn]

thanks-I got that already. But sometimes not all movies rear speakers. Maybe its the same problem.

[fatboyjim]

You may need to go into Creative Playcentre and click on CMSS to enable 'Movie Mode', without this enabled you won't hear anything from your centre speaker either

Jim

[mystvearn]

I am using 4 speakers+1 subwoofer-There is no center- I will try look into it. But for now-winamp is ok. wmp9-some movies. around 20 to 30%