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Instead of the current convention which is array[channel][sample], consider array[sample][channel].
Study the different (potential) benefits:

• works "out of the box" with matplotlib plot (not only when the data is mono),

• memory representation closer to wave file content (?) and thus simpler / more efficient
  (depends on if Fortran or C convention is used for arrays I guess, have a look at that).

• the result of len is more natural.

Questions / TODO:

• for mono data, do we still accept (and produce ?) a "unboxed" representation
  with array of floats instead of arrays of arrays of size 1 ? Or only accept it,
  but always produce an array of array (flatten does the job to unbox the data).
  Is the flatten even necessary for most use cases?

• study the changes to propagate to client software, see use cases.
  Is it better with the changes?

• bump to a major version (incompatible change)