How to setup audio output on ION330

[seand]

So you fixed your problem then.

I bet for stereo audio your backs are just putting out the exact same signal as their corresponding fronts and the center just a mono mix of left and right, which I imagine some would argue is not a "correct" stereo image of a stereo mix but whatever.

FWIW I don't set my reciever to fake a surround mix for stereo music precisely because I think it sounds clearer, less muddy playing stereo music in 2.1, but its all a matter of taste. My former father-in-law hated letter boxing he said because he felt he was "missing part of the movie" even though as I pointed out by cropping the format he was quite literally missing part of the picture. There is no accounting for taste.

In terms of navigation sound its either supposed to be on through whatever playback is set to or not on at all. Why would that be a problem?

[alda]

No I don't solved my problem because I want navigation sound from HDMI.

Alda

[seand]

1. Its not something the program is designed to do.

2. Why? I could see why you might want a quieter navigation sound but why go through this whole rigamarole screwing up your surround audio image to control that? Different skins have different sounds and I bet you could just edit the sound resource file, if you really wanted to make it say quack like a duck everytime you flip through a menu so why not just go that route instead?

It sounds to me like you are trying do buy a new house because you don't like the door mat, instead just getting a different door mat.

[seand]

Search and you will find.
http://openelec.tv/forum/36-solved-bug-r...ion-sounds

[therio]

Search and you will find.
http://openelec.tv/forum/36-solved-bug-r...ion-sounds

Hi Seand,

That will not fix the problem/way of playing Alda asked.
The menu sounds must always come over HDMI, while the sounds from audio and video files must go over the analog connection. We suggested a custom asound.conf, which indeed gave menusounds over HDMI and videofile sounds over analog, but music is now also played over HDMI.

[seand]

Right. But my understanding is that music is handled by a completely different section of XBMC than video and the solution offered does not seem to work for him. He does not want to have to manually change his XBMC settings when he plays music. I suspect that you won't be able to help him because it will be an XBMc issue, not an OE issue. Feel free to correct me if thats wrong.

The only practical reason for routing navigation sounds to one set of speakers and everything to your surround speakers is because you want change the volume at which navigation sounds play relative to playback volume. And it is apparently possible to set custom navigation sounds so one in theory could take the default sounds, lower their overall volume in a sound editing program and reassign them as custom sounds. Or you could pick your own quieter, more aestehetically pleasing navigation sounds.

Perhaps I did not express it in the best way, but I was just suggesting another to achieve the desired result when he has apparently hit a brick wall.

Doing a quick search lowering the volume of navigation sounds seems to be a common complaint of XBMC users. Including this.
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/475

I apologize if my attempt to look at a completely different approach to the issue rubbed anyone the wrong way.

If you have another solution that does not require either a.) manually changing the audio settings in XBMC everytime he wants to play music
or b.) actually changing the navigation sounds themselves please do not hesitate to offer it.

I'll stay out of this thread, from here on out.