Confusion over sound channels

If I try to initialise more than 4 channels then a message is returned:
"1 mono channel and 2 stereo channels supported"
But that is 3 channels not 4, so what is the index of each channel ?
Does the music channel have an index ?

As I understand it, there are two different things called “channels”. One is
the number of what we usually call channels - 1 for mono output, 2 for
stereo. The “supported” sentence means SDL supports either mono or stereo
output, that is, 1 or 2 channels, but not 3.

The other thing that SDL_mixer calls “channels” is the mixing channels - how
many samples + music you can have playing simultaneously. Those channels do
have indexes. The music channel doesn’t, and is managed through a different
set of functions.

–GabrielOn Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Daniel Grace wrote:

If I try to initialise more than 4 channels then a message is returned:
"1 mono channel and 2 stereo channels supported"
But that is 3 channels not 4, so what is the index of each channel ?
Does the music channel have an index ?