“Aux input playback I have bought the Bose SoundLink Mini and it sounds amazing. It's really something to be marvelled at. I'm using it to listening music from my tablet via Bluetooth and I cannot ask for better combo. Now what I want to do also is, use the Aux input to play some movies from my PC, and some have a 5.1 soundtrack. When I connect the cable I can only ear the 2 fronts channels, even though I have configured the system to play in stereo mode. It's even possible to the Bose Mini to reproduce a 5.1 movie track? Or do I have to downmix from 5.1 to stereo? If so it's possible to do this on the fly with a certain player? What I'm doing wrong? Does anyone has any suggestion? Thanks in advance, Lino”
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The SoundLink Mini accepts up to stereo audio only. You can't send a 5.1 soundtrack over a 3.5mm connection (the Auxiliary input) anyway. Your sound card is sending only the two front stereo channels through that connection to the SoundLink Mini. What you need to do is either select the stereo soundtrack of the movie (many modern movies lack this), set your sound card to stereo output so that it down mixes the audio, or use something like VLC to play the video back and have the software down mix the audio.
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Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Hi Lino. The SoundLink Mini cannot reproduce a digital 5.1 signal. Its AUX input will only accept stereo audio which is why you’re losing the rear channels. In your PC’s audio output settings you can try to set it to only output sound to a stereo (left and right) speaker setup. If this doesn’t work, there may be settings that can be adjusted within the video player itself to output only the stereo track from the movie. Thanks!
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