WMA
WMA entry
WMA stands for Windows Media Audio. A proprietary audio format owned by Microsoft, part of Microsoft's Windows Media technology.The Windows Media Player format, which (according to independent testing) sounds as good as MP3 at half the bit rate (and therefore half the file size)."Windows Media Audio", Microsofts proprietary audio codec designed to compete with MP3. Claims competitive sound quality at lower bitrates Windows Media Audio (WMA) is Windows own file format for compressed audio. With the new WMA 7.1 you the quality has been improved very much. You should compare WMA 7.1 and later with the quality of MP3Pro. WMA 7.1 is way better that mp3 if you compare the quality for the same bit rates for MP3 and WMA Windows Media Audio", Microsofts proprietary audio codec designed to compete with MP3. Claims competitive sound quality at lower bitrates A part of Microsoft's Windows Media audio and video software, included with the Windows Media Player software, WMA quality remains quite high even at low bitrates, and Microsoft claims WMA can reproduce CD-quality audio with roughly twice the compression of MP3. WMA is downloadable format, and in conjunction with Microsoft's Advanced Streaming Format (ASF), WMA can also be streamed to listeners. In fact, Windows Media competes directly with the more established RealAudio format and is quickly gaining in popularity. Many portable devices already support WMA, and the format is sure to be a major player in the future of digital audio.by Microsoft, Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a sound-file format that is even smaller than MP3. WMA offers near-CD-quality sound at an encoding rate of only 64kbps (as opposed to MP3's 128kbps), cutting the file size in half. Optional copyright protection is included in the WMA code, allowing the owner to restrict the use of protected material.
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