If you’re needing to check the channel allocation of a multichannel audio file player, this file (multichannel_wav_channel_id_5_1 – remember, right-click to download…) might come in handy.

It’s a three-second long, 6-channel .wav file, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, with the channel allocation as follows:

1. Left Front

2. Right Front

3. Centre Front

4. LFE

5. Left Surround

6. Right Surround