Stereo Mode: How to play all songs in Mono

[slivingood]

I have a playlist of all my music. However I have to keep going to Stereo Mode and selecting Mono every time because it always plays them in Stereo Mode. I use headphones and Mono sounds much better. How do I set all VLC to always play my music files in Mono mode?

Thank you very much.

Scott Livingood

[chubinou]

Hi,

you can go in tools > preferences > 'show settings / all' > "audio/filters" and select " stereo to mono downmixer".

save and restart VLC.

[Username101]

Thanks, but the result was slowed playback with static-like sounds.
Stereo mode was still selected in the main interface drop-down menu list.

Eq is enabled

[Myk Streja]

Same here. Not sure what this is really supposed to do.

[mestrelo]

I had the same issue on windows, and the solution i found was going to advanced preferences>audio>output modules and then changing audio output module from automatic to directx audio output. After that all you have to do is go to directx under output modules and set speaker configuration to mono.