Multichannel Audio History Timeline

Every milestone from 1881 stereo to 2021 Apple Spatial Audio on one page: dates, formats, channel counts, and what each era's file actually stores. Plus the 5.1 / 7.1 / 7.1.4 / 9.1.6 notation decoded.

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