It's been talked about, but I don't know of any specific proposals. However, it
could easily be done as a proprietary extension to the new multi-channel WAVE
format recently proposed by Microsoft. Martin Puryear recently posted the whole
spec on the music-dsp site:

http://shoko.calarts.edu/~glmrboy/musicdsp/sourcecode/mulchaud.rtf


Much will depend on how 'public-domain' the B-format is - I am still not clear
about this!

There will probably also be plenty of discussion about this on the
surround-sound list. Whatever people think about Microsoft (and I think a lot of
very different things, at different times..), I think this is an interesting
initiative, which should ultimately result in more hardware being able to play
Csound quad files!


Richard Dobson

Matt J. Ingalls wrote:
>
> 6) on a side note: does anybody know if there is a standardized header (AIFF
> format chunk?) for B-format (ambisonics) sound files?