audio interface with 5.1 for watching movies and make music.

So what I’ve heard recently is that Windows can recognize different interfaces differently depending on the drivers, and the drivers we typically use for audio production are supplied by the makers of the interface. In my case I’m using an old Lynx TWO-B PCIe card as an interface and Windows can access one output configured as 5.1 surround. This means that I can use the default computer audio output for Netflix and set that to the Lynx card. That way I get 5.1 surround when watching Netflix using their app on Windows.

Some other people have reported problems with their (other brand) interfaces using their drivers. The outputs supposedly only show up as pairs, so Windows doesn’t recognize a full 6-channel output. I’m not sure if using a generic driver like Asio4all would work.

So the answer is that I’m not 100% sure which interface to get, but the literal answer to your question is “yes”.