Developed by Microsoft, Windows Media Audio is a competing compressed audio format to MP3, but with some copyright protection. Microsoft claims that WMA features better audio quality for the same file size as a comparable MP3 file. Files may be recorded on CD-R or CD-RW media for playback in compatible DVD players (e.g., Panasonic 2002 DVD player models) and computers. Files are usually named as "*.wma". Like MP3, sound quality varies as a function of the recording/encoding bit rate. See MP3. back to the previous page
This is an audio compression technology that includes the management system called "Windows Media Rights Manager".
An audio file or stream in Windows Media Format. The audio content of the file or stream is encoded with one of the Windows Media Audio codecs.
A Microsoft-developed audio codec that offers sampling rates of 8 to 48KHz. Files of this type typically have the file extension ".wma," and Microsoft...
A format developed by Microsoft to distribute compressed audio over the Internet. This format is used by OverDrive media files because of its excellent audio quality, file size, and Digital Rights Management (DRM) capabilities. Your portable device must be able to play protected WMA files in order to download OverDrive audio books.
Describes an audio file format associated with the Windows Media platform.
Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a proprietary compressed audio file format developed by Microsoft. It was initially intended to be a competitor to the popular MP3 format, but has not yet received such popularity. However, with the introduction of WMA Pro and Apple's i Tunes Music Store, WMA has positioned itself as a competitor to the Advanced Audio Coding format used by Apple and is part of Microsoft's Windows Media framework.