WMA - Revision history

Sembiance: /* Sample files */

2024-02-16T20:17:17Z

‎Sample files

2023-10-20T14:30:29Z

‎Sample files

2023-09-30T09:46:14Z

WMA also exist a "Pro" variant for HD/multichannel audio.

2022-02-17T22:13:22Z

Added sample files

2019-06-14T03:01:58Z

"container codec" -> "container format"

2019-06-14T02:59:26Z

Added extension to body

2019-06-14T02:58:14Z

Added back the other "See also" entry

2019-06-14T02:53:35Z

Making the distinction between the formats and the codecs clear

2018-01-16T16:36:40Z

PRONOM

2017-06-15T16:33:34Z

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 == Sample files ==
-* https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/audio/wma/ (Some are Argo ASF files, not Windows ASF files)
+* {{DexvertSamples|audio/wma}} (Some are Argo ASF files, not Windows ASF files)
 == Links ==

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 == Sample files ==
-* https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/audio/wma/
+* https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/audio/wma/ (Some are Argo ASF files, not Windows ASF files)
 == Links ==

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 [[WMA]] (Windows Media Audio) is an audio codec developed by Microsoft and used as the native format for compressed audio to be played in Windows Media Player, as [[WMV]] is for video. WMA is always, in practice, encapsulated by the [[ASF]] container format, whereupon it becomes a "WMA file" and takes on the extension ".wma".
-The normal WMA codec is lossy (it loses some of its data in the course of compressing it), but there is a [[WMA Lossless]] variant, as well as another version optimized for speech rather than music.
+The normal WMA codec is lossy (it loses some of its data in the course of compressing it), but there is a [[WMA Lossless]] variant, as well as another version optimized for speech rather than music. Another version for HD/multichannel audio also exists, called "WMA Pro".
 == See also ==

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 * [[WMV]] (Windows Media Video)
 * [[ASF]] (Advanced Systems Format)
 == Links ==

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 |uniform type={{UTI|com.microsoft.windows-media-wma}}
 }}
-[[WMA]] (Windows Media Audio) is an audio codec developed by Microsoft and used as the native format for compressed audio to be played in Windows Media Player, as [[WMV]] is for video. WMA is always, in practice, encapsulated by the [[ASF]] container codec, whereupon it becomes a "WMA file" and takes on the extension ".wma".
+[[WMA]] (Windows Media Audio) is an audio codec developed by Microsoft and used as the native format for compressed audio to be played in Windows Media Player, as [[WMV]] is for video. WMA is always, in practice, encapsulated by the [[ASF]] container format, whereupon it becomes a "WMA file" and takes on the extension ".wma".
 The normal WMA codec is lossy (it loses some of its data in the course of compressing it), but there is a [[WMA Lossless]] variant, as well as another version optimized for speech rather than music.

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 |extensions={{ext|wma}}
 |mimetypes={{mimetype|video/x-ms-wma}}
 |uniform type={{UTI|com.microsoft.windows-media-wma}}
 }}
-'''[[WMA]]''' (Windows Media Audio) is an audio format and codec developed by Microsoft and used as the native format for compressed audio to be played in Windows Media Player, as [[WMV]] is for video. As a file format, WMA is usually contained within an [[ASF]] container format.
+[[WMA]] (Windows Media Audio) is an audio format and codec developed by Microsoft and used as the native format for compressed audio to be played in Windows Media Player, as [[WMV]] is for video. As a file format, WMA is usually contained within an [[ASF]] container format.
 The normal WMA format is lossy (it loses some of its data in the course of compressing it), but there is a [[WMA Lossless]] variant, as well as another version optimized for speech rather than music.

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 The normal WMA format is lossy (it loses some of its data in the course of compressing it), but there is a [[WMA Lossless]] variant, as well as another version optimized for speech rather than music.
-WMV does not inherently contain Digital Rights Management (DRM), but the ASF container format was designed with the possibility of DRM in mind, so some of these files are so encumbered.
+WMV does not inherently contain [[Digital Rights Management]] (DRM), but the ASF container format was designed with the possibility of DRM in mind, so some of these files are so encumbered.
 == See also ==