Zaireeka: Four, Separate Channels

[HartleySan]

For those of you not familiar with Zaireeka, it is a four-disc album by The Flaming Lips. Basically, they took each song and divided it into four, different channels, which are on four, different CDs. The concept being that you're supposed to play all four CDs at the same time to get an awesome, surround sound feel.

Anyway, I have already figured out how to easy put all four parts together into one track. That's all well and good, but what I really want to do is divide the four parts up so that one part plays on the front-left speaker, another on the front-right speaker, another on the rear-left speaker and the last one on the rear-right speaker.

Is this possible with Audacity? Thank you very much.

[kozikowski]

Last word I see is Audacity will not play over two channels.

Koz

[HartleySan]

Okay. Thanks a lot. So, how do I divide two files into two different channels?

[steve]

Audacity will not PLAY more than 2 channels, but it CAN Export multi-channel audio. If you have suitable hardware, and a media player that supports surround sound, then you would be able to put the audio tracks from the 4 CDs together and Export as a multi-channel audio file.
Personally I do not have a set-up capable of doing this, but if you do, then we may still be able to offer some limited assistance with the Audacity part.