Methods and systems for altering the speaker orientation of a portable system

A computer-implemented method comprising program instructions stored on a carrier medium, the method comprising:

• first program instructions executable by a processor for determining an orientation of a display of a portable system having a maximum of two speakers, wherein the two speakers are arranged along one side of the portable system;
• second program instructions executable by the processor for determining an orientation of the two speakers of the system based on the orientation of the display;
• and
• third program instructions executable by the processor for determining if a current orientation of the two speakers differs from the determined orientation of the two speakers, and if so, altering the current orientation of the two speakers such that the two speakers have the determined orientation, wherein said altering comprises swapping audio signals supplied to the two speakers when the orientation of the display is rotated clockwise 90° from a portrait mode to a landscape mode or counter-clockwise 90° from the landscape mode to the portrait mode.