Standardizing everything to 48kHz and then scale down in clean multiples of 8 would be the logical way to do it. Offering more than 2 channels in a pure audio

Standardizing everything to 48kHz and then scale down in clean multiples of 8 would be the logical way to do it. Offering more than 2 channels in a pure audio format has been tried countless times and failed every time. It doesn't do anything for headphones, and surround-mixed music has always been a gimmick at best. 1-channel can already be done on existing CDs, the left and right channels are fully discrete and can each contain a separate mono track. This trick was used on VCDs, to have two different languages on the same disc. The player can be set to only play one channel. Here's a Techmoan video about using two mono tracks to squeeze twice the amount of music onto a CD: https://youtu.be/5fG1crhGqI0 https://youtu.be/5fG1crhGqI0