How can I split a stereo sound fle in two separate channel files?

[Chainmax]

Question pretty much says it all. As you can see, I am not looking for a stereo to 5.1 transformation but rather just have the left and right channels as separate files for some processing.

[joshbm]

It might be a little old, but I use MCTools (Multichannel Tools). They have a CLI program called "channelx":

The syntax is:channelx "input.wav" 1 2
That is to get the first 2 channels out of any file. If you had a 6 channel wav file use syntax:channelx "input.wav" 1 2 3 4 5 6
That will extract all 6 channels when found.
Regards,
- joshbm

[joshbm]

There site seems to have changed as MCTools are now unavailable :(. If you would like I can attach the mctools.zip file.

PS- It was freeware and now it seems to have disappeared.

Regards,
- joshbm

[Chainmax]

Please do, I'd really aprreciate it.

[joshbm]

Here you go.

8 tools in all and the original readme file.
http://www.videocdpro.com/josh/mctools.zip

Sorry it was too big to post, so I had to upload it to my server.

[Edit]
By the way, tell me when you download it, so I can take it off my server.

Regards,
- joshbm

[Asmodeus]

Just use Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)

[Chainmax]

joshbm: download complete. Thanks :).

Asmodeus: thanks for the link, I'll check it out.

[joshbm]

Originally posted by Asmodeus
Just use Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)
Yes I Audacity is a good tool, but the only problem with that is he would have to split the stereo file in one step then save each file individually. With "channelx" it separates it in one step, saving both channels at the same time.

Regards,
-joshbm