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My dad bought a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi 5.1 PRO and how does one use it? Like I know that the knob can change volume but what can you do else with it?

You plug in your headphones?

I'm not sure what you mean :P

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well you can plug in your headphones in the side or speakers in back.

and i think its just plug and play.

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They only are for headphones? My dad has it plugged in a 5.1 audio system lol. :D I mean like do you have to have a special audio player for it or VLC works too?

No and no.

You can use speakers too and I suppose 5.1 systems too. What connection are you using?

And no, you can use WIndows Media Player too, why would you?

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well you can plug in your headphones in front or speakers in back.

and i think its just plug and play.

Nope, there was a lot installed from the cd

 

1. Plug audio thing into computer

2. Plug audio noise maker into the audio thing

3. Receive noise from the audio noise maker

 

There's really nothing special required. <.<

Do I have to use diffrent audio player or VLC works too?

 

 

No and no.

You can use speakers too and I suppose 5.1 systems too. What connection are you using?

And no, you can use WIndows Media Player too, why would you?

 

Well becouse with the remote you can't skip songs. 

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Well becouse with the remote you can't skip songs. 

have you connected it into pc via USB or 3,5mm jack/s?

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Nope, there was a lot installed from the cd

 

Do I have to use diffrent audio player or VLC works too?

 

 
 

Well becouse with the remote you can't skip songs. 

You can always try installing the driver for some extra functionality. But to hear things you just need to make sure its correctly installed and selected as default device.

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have you connected it into pc via USB or 3,5mm jack/s?

Yep

You can always try installing the driver for some extra functionality. But to hear things you just need to make sure its correctly installed and selected as default device.

I have done it, I mainly want to know what is teh best player to use with it

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