WMA
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| − | [[WMA]] (Windows Media Audio) is an audio | + | [[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". |
| − | The normal 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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== See also == | == See also == | ||
* [[WMV]] (Windows Media Video) | * [[WMV]] (Windows Media Video) | ||
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Revision as of 02:53, 14 June 2019
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".
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.
See also
- WMV (Windows Media Video)
