What's the consensus: MP3 or WMA?

[Lucky]

I read a few technical discussions on usenet but they are *really* dated. What format is technically better (audio quality and file size?)

 

[Utterman]

To me, mp3 sounds better even though microsoft says that WMA can sound better and takes up less space. I really like the openness of mp3 compared to WMA

 

[BennyD]

i'd say mp3's, especially if done properly

i had a few wma's a while back and they sounded like crap

 

[isekii]

for me 128k WMa sounded like 192k mp3s

I prefer whichever is easily accessible for me~

mainly mp3s

 

[joohang]

Don't know about the detailed technical aspects, but I like to rip CDs into 96 Kbps WMA. They sound decent enough (for me, at least) and they are small so that I can fit a bunch of them into a CF card for portable music.

 

[DaveSimmons]

I prefer MP3 but I'm ripping from my CD collection at high bitrate (234 kbps VBR) for listening through good stereo speakers and headphones at home.

 

[Passions]

mp3z

 

[wellerdball]

wma is technically better and the new 5.1 encoded wma is going to own mp3 to bad itll never catch on

 

[Mrburns2007]

what about ogg it's suppose to better sounding then both mp3 and wma ?

 

[bigredguy]

mp3's here

 

[dawks]

WMA 9.0 64kbit dual pass encoding is incredible!

 

[Paulson]

all mp3... I pretty much haven't adapted to any other and never will.