Speaker fill does not work with desktop app

[sergesyrota]

OS: Windows 10

Issue Descriptions: Speaker fill on 5.1 system does not work, and only front L/R speakers are playing, while all others are silent.

Steps to Reproduce: Press Play. Disconnect front left/right speakers from amp. Ta da!

Workaround: Create a shortcut to "Google Play Music Desktop Player.exe" with "--try-supported-channel-layouts" flag. Ta da!

Unfortunately workaround does not work with the default shortcut to "Update.exe"

Would be nice to get this to work out of the box, or have this as a setting in the app itself.

[duplicate-issue-bot[bot]]

Hey There, We did a quick check and this issue looks very darn similar to

• #2081 - Side buttons of mouse not working
• #921 - Last.FM doesn't work with proxy settings
• #2364 - Make Windows 10 Media Service compatible with Native Media Keys

This could be a cooincidence, but if any of these issues solves your problem then I did a good job :smile:

If not, the maintainers will get to this issue shortly.

Cheers, Your Friendly Neighborhood ProBot

[MarshallOfSound]

@duplicate-issue-bot[bot] Heh, those are a bit off the mark 😆

@sergesyrota I would accept a PR to add an option to the "Audio" settings tab to append this launch flag at startup.

--try-supported-channel-layouts

Would be a simple Settings.get call inside this file https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-/blob/master/src/main/configureApp.js 👍

[sergesyrota]

@MarshallOfSound, I'll try this out, and if it works, will submit a PR.

[sergesyrota]

After an hour trying (first time with nodejs), can't get the build to work. I'll get back to this some time in the future when I have more time, but if anyone else can try it, please do :)

[MarshallOfSound]

@sergesyrota If you need help getting the build going feel free to ask in Gitter.

A good starting point is https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-/wiki/Development-FAQ

[MarshallOfSound]

Fixed in #2715