#Issues with 7.1 and 5.1 audio in linux mint 22

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limber roost
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In linux mint 22, stereo doesn't convert into 7.1 audio like it does in 21.3. SO basically, in 21.3, when I play something stereo audio (like youtube, or an audio file) it would play it on all the speakers and subwoofer (which is better in every way) as if it was 7.1. There just wouldn't be individual surround sound because its stereo. 22 plays stereo as stereo, and only plays 7.1 as 7.1. SO on 22, I can't blast music from youtube and stuff because it doesn't play on the rear speakers, and doesn't fully use the subwoofer to its full potential. Yes, 7.1 audio was selected from the sound settings on both of these versions. I struggled for a while trying to solve it, but nothing at all worked so I needed to go back to linux mint 21.3 where it worked. Summary: linux mint 22 doesn't convert stereo audio to 7.1 or 5.1 but linux mint 21.3 does

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could be a bug that needs to be fixed

quartz halo
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try using pulse audio volume control, and explore its configuration tab.

limber roost
timid patrol
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the feature you want on is remixing

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I think this can be configured and its possible to default configuration differs

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so just checked pulse has this feature enabled looking for the equivilent pipewire config

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however I'm a little confused insofar as the only config dir I see on my mint vm is in /usr/share

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$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pipewire/pipewire.conf should be valid

limber roost
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i'll do a live usb of it some time to test this

timid patrol
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option one add the configuration to the desired location and either restart pipewire and pipewire-pulse (or reboot) and see if its picked up

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option two use pulseaudio

limber roost
timid patrol
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I think you could add a config to /usr/share/pipewire I think it picks up everything there

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just don't write it to the existing files as it would be overwritten on update

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nevermind confirmed that it should read /etc/pipewire and ~/.config/pipewire