Aiff to Wave file conversion problem

I' m not sure if windows supports multichannel .wav files (I'm on a
mac). But if yes, as I suppose, you could use SoundHack (free) to
converting aiff multichannel to wav multich directly on the Mac and
after read the files on pc.
ciao,
ric

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> I have recorded some music in surround sound using MaxMSP on an
> Apple Mac. I am converting the program I am running to PC format.
> I have converted the surround sound aiff file to a wave file in
> order for the PC to understand it. To do this I simply re-recorded
> the aiff from an sfplay~ object into an sfrecord~ object. The
> resulting file works fine on the Apple Mac but the PC doesn't
> recognise it. The PC does recognise a stereo version but not the
> surround sound version. Why doesn't the PC recognise the wave
> file? ...what can I do to overcome this problem?
>
> Furthermore, the PC has recognised a brief surround sound test
> file (wave) I created whereby I recorded four separate
> distinguishable sounds into the four respective channels using four
> separate sfplay~ objects into one sfrecord~ object. For some
> strange reason the Pc recognised this file and played it back as
> expected in surround sound. The assumption I draw from this is
> that sfrecord~ seems capable of saving a surround sound file in
> wave format but only if the channels are recorded from separate
> sfplay objects. For some reason sfrecord~ does not like converting
> an existing surround sound file from aiff to wave. Do you know why
> this might be?
> Would the problem lie inside the sfrecord~ object?
>
> I'd appreciate it if anybody can solve this problem as it's quite
> urgent that I can convert from aiff to wave in order for a PC to
> play the file back in surround sound.
>
> Thanks.
>