I have 5.1 Creative speaker. Can you please tell me how can I enable them in Edge browser?

Hi

Welcome to Microsoft community.

To enable 5.1 speakers in the Edge browser, you can follow these steps:

1. Disable Startup Boost in Microsoft Edge: Every time you close Microsoft Edge, no process will continue to run in the background. To disable Startup Boost in Microsoft Edge, you can follow these steps:
   1. Open Microsoft Edge.
   2. Click on the Settings button (Alt + F) and select Settings from the menu.
   3. On the left, click on System and performance.
   4. On the right, turn off the Startup Boost toggle option.
   5. You can now close the Edge settings page.
   Please note that disabling Startup Boost will stop Microsoft Edge processes from starting at OS sign-in and restarting in the background after the last browser window is closed.
2. Disable Edge in Task Manager: If it hasn’t already been removed by disabling “startup boost”, disable via task manager > startup of “Microsoft Edge”. Otherwise, edge.exe will be started in the background and will not use the Flag: "–try-supported-channel-layouts".
3. Modify Shortcut: Add  --try-supported-channel-layouts  to the target path of the shortcut that’s on your desktop. It will look something like this: "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft\\Edge\\Application\\msedge.exe" --try-supported-channel-layouts.
4. Check Sound Settings: Press Windows Key + I to open Settings. Click on System and then click on Sound. Under Sound settings, scroll down and click on to “App volume and device preferences”. Check the setting for Edge.
5. Configure Speakers: Ensure that your output speakers are configured to be using the right settings as 5.1 surround by going to mmsys.cpl>select your speakers>configure speakers>5.1 or 7.1 surround. Click next and so on.

If these steps do not work, you might want to consider using a different browser that supports 5.1 audio output.

Please feel free to let me know if you have any further updates, thanks.

Best regards

Derrick Qian | Microsoft Community Support Specialist

Wonderful, this works! But why so complicated MS? In Firefox it works without any shortcut manipulation.