Front/Rear speakers reversed when playing CD's...
 

Since I upgraded to the latest version of Winamp, 2.77, I've played nothing but MP3's. No particular reason, I just hadn't tried a CD 'til about five minutes ago. Turns out that now, for some odd reason, the front and rear speakers have switched place. I get sound out of the two rear ones (it's incredibly loud, too), but not the front. Everything works fine when playing MP3's, and CD's play fine in Windows Media Player; what could possibly be causing this?

As far as system specs go:

Athlon Classic 700 w/768MB PC100 SDRAM
MS-6167 motherboard
SBLive! Platinum (NOT a 5.1 Platinum)
Cambridge Soundworks FPS1000 speakers with sub
Windows 2000 Pro, SP2

And no, I don't have gen_nomad.dll ANYWHERE on my computer. Hell, I don't even have Playcenter installed.

Anybody know what's going on here?

1) With Winamp closed, install the CDReader input plug-in and follow the instructions.
2) In Winamp, hold Ctrl and press P, go to the Output Plug-Ins section and select DirectSound.

Hmm....no luck. Still no sound from the front speakers.

As Neo said . . . follow the instructions.

Did you disable the default plugin (in_cdda.dll) by renaming it with the OFF extension?

Oh, yeah. Oops. :) But we have to use a third party plugin just to get the speakers to work properly? Nullsoft is planning on fixing this, right?

Fixing what? It's supposed to work on 2 speakers, which is all most people have. 90% of people have nothing to complain about Winamp using 2 speakers because that's all they have. You, being a special case (having suround sound), require a special plugin.

Well, the thing is, I didn't MIND just using the two speakers. The problem was that Winamp was using the wrong two. And, as a matter of fact, before version 2.77, it worked perfectly. No plugin required. That's what I mean by "fix".

Well, CDReader is better than the CD plug-in which is packed with Winamp. I don't know why we don't just include it in the installer rather than the standard one :D