Help Playing 5.1 audio file

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Hi, I’ve been trying to get 5.1 audio file to play in 5.1.
I’ve tested Ogg, Mka, and Flac but they all seem to play in stereo.

I have RPI2 and hifiberry digi. Passthrough enabled (although passthrough device says HDMI and greyed out so can’t change it)
Movies play fine in 5.1 though so must be using hifiberry.

I read that they needed to be played by the video player to get 5.1 so followed the instructions here: Kodi: Adding support for Atmos, TrueHD and DTS:X, DTS-HDMA audio only files | QuadraphonicQuad Home Audio Forum

Add a new text file to Kodi’s userdata folder:

File named: playercorefactory.xml

-deleted code-

I added the file but now all the test files play with no audio and osmc crashes when I stop playback.
I deleted the playercorefactory.xml file but still get no audio and crash when I stop playback. :frowning:

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Did you remember to restart Kodi after deleting playercorefactory? A log may be helpful in assisting you.

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Yeah restarted, mp3’s play fine but two 5.1 audio files (ogg,mka) which I added to the playercorefactory.xml file are silent and (sometimes) crash osmc.

I forgot I was using a clean install of osmc, movies do not play with sound, hifiberry isn’t setup right for passthrough which is why passthrough device only shows hdmi and I can’t choose hifiberry.

I found this thread which seems as though there’s a bug in the kernel.

Soundcard overlay is set to hifiberry-digi-overlay
Audio output device only has snd_rpi_hifiberry_digi analog

There’s no snd_rpi_hifiberry_digi SPDIF option.

Just tried my old SDCard with 2019.07-1 (kernel: Linux 4.14.78-4 ) and it plays the 5.1 files in 5.1 with no code edit needed so will wait for update.