# Who uses Kodi? **URL:** \ **Category:** general\ **Created:** [April 5, 2016, 12:02pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/who-uses-kodi/1146 "2016-04-05T12:02:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rizak](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/rizak/32/4190_2.png) [@Rizak](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Rizak)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 12:17am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/who-uses-kodi/1146/21 "2017-06-21T00:17:34Z")
Yes, this worked. Basically, you go to [trakt.tv](http://trakt.tv), create a new API key and secret key, then edit the config file for Kodi, start Kodi, re-authorize [trakt.tv](http://trakt.tv) through Kodi as you always do and it works like before. ---
**Author:** ![Lee\_Ars](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/lee_ars/32/2338_2.png) [@Lee\_Ars](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Lee_Ars)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 7:39pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/who-uses-kodi/1146/22 "2017-07-06T19:39:24Z")
> [@MikeP](#): > > I’ve got a Synology NAS and I’ve copied all my DVDs and Blue-Rays on to it. > But I couldn’t get the surround sound to work. I tried using Plex… Can’t speak to your specific situation, but I’ve got surround sound working with plex without problems. I’ve got the plex server app running on a Mac Mini, which is connected via HDMI to my surround receiver (which is in turn connected to the TV and the speakers). I’m using my Synology NAS as just a dumb backend, mounting my video share on the Mac via SMB. To actually play stuff, I’m running the [Plex Media Player](https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/208050627-Plex-Media-Player-Overview) on the same mini, with pretty much all of the audio settings at default. Files with embedded DTS and other surround formats play properly in surround without me having to do anything. If you’ve had issues in the past, you might try using HDMI for your PC-TV interface—it seems to be the key. ---
**Author:** ![MikeP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MikeP](https://cog.discourse.group/u/MikeP)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 8:30pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/who-uses-kodi/1146/23 "2017-07-06T20:30:07Z")
It’s probably just a quirk of the way I’ve got things set up. In my lounge I have a smart TV, an Apple TV, a TV recorder set top box, and a home theatre system - no dedicated media server. My NAS is my media server, and it is in my office. All the appliances in the lounge are connected to the TV via HDMI. When I’m playing something through the smart TV (media from the media server, YouTube, Netflix etc), it sends the sound back to the home theatre system via the return channel. For some reason, when I run the Plex media server on my NAS I can’t get surround sound to work. Serviio does work pretty well for me though so I haven’t spent a huge amount of time trying to get Plex to work. ---
**Author:** ![Lee\_Ars](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/lee_ars/32/2338_2.png) [@Lee\_Ars](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Lee_Ars)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 10:02pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/who-uses-kodi/1146/24 "2017-07-06T22:02:23Z")
> [@MikeP](#): > > When I’m playing something through the smart TV (media from the media server, YouTube, Netflix etc), it sends the sound back to the home theatre system via the return channel. That sounds like the difference between our configs—I go HTPC → receiver → TV, and it looks like you’re going HTPC → TV → receiver. Not sure if there’s something quirky about how plex handles the return channel or not—sounds like there might be. ---
**Author:** ![moufassa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/moufassa/32/41_2.png) [@moufassa](https://cog.discourse.group/u/moufassa)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 12:55pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/who-uses-kodi/1146/25 "2017-07-12T12:55:34Z")
Lots of TVs (even new ones) don’t do surround passthrough - so if you’re hooking your media player directly to the TV and the TV to the receiver, the receiver will only pick up the stereo audio stream. The solution, as @Lee_Ars says, is to connect your media player to the receiver and the TV to the receiver - assuming that said receiver has HDMI switching. Mine doesn’t, so I had my media player connected directly to my TV, and the TV connected via optical to the receiver. This allowed for surround sound when watching free-to-air but only stereo when using any other sources. So I now have the TV and HTPC connected to separate optical inputs and manually switch the receiver source with the TV. Clunky, but it’s cheaper than buying a new receiver. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MikeP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MikeP](https://cog.discourse.group/u/MikeP)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 10:51am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/who-uses-kodi/1146/26 "2017-07-13T10:51:49Z")
The TV does do surround passthrough - it works using Serviio, just not with Plex. Given that the media server is in a separate room, connecting it to the receiver using HDMI isn’t an option. I could probably plug my Apple TV into the receiver, but then that would add another level of complexity to the equation and the rest of the family would probably kill me. Serviio works. It doesn’t have some of the flash bells and whistles of Plex, but I can live with that 😄 [Previous page](https://cog.discourse.group/t/who-uses-kodi/1146.md?page=1)