Audacity Forum

The file extension on a B-format file can be either .wav or .amb interchangeably. .amb was designed to signal mostly future software that a file was a B-format, which can be either 3 track (horizontal only) or 4 track (with vertical info as well). W is the pressure signal and XYZ provide the veloci...

If I have understood your post correctly, you are using Audacity to convert from .amb to .wav formats and you are unsure what Audacity does to the channel order. One solution is to not use Audacity for this. Instead, use the CDP Multi-Channel Toolkit (mctools). Appropriate tools for your task appear...