WMA: WHY?!

[Demon-Xanth]

Can someone please explain to me why anyone would use WMA, muchless expect (MP3) hardware to understand it?

 

[bmacd]

wma has really good compression to sound quality rates.

-=bmacd=-

 

[mpitts]

Because Microsoft said so.

 

[bacillus]

Originally posted by: mpitts
Because Microsoft said so.

 

[Scarpozzi]

wma has really good compression to sound quality rates

You can easily use an Xbox (don't have one) or Windows Media Player 7.1 or up to copy a cd album to wma format. It takes up about 25megs and sounds very good at 64kb/sec sampling rate... Using Windows Media Player is very quick since it comes with a ripper built in. Microsoft can allow wma over mp3 because there's actually a couple of security flags that ask if you're the licensed owner of the original copy as well. This is more than anything protection for Microsoft, but it's a nice feature to their design.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi

wma has really good compression to sound quality rates

You can easily use an Xbox (don't have one) or Windows Media Player 7.1 or up to copy a cd album to wma format. It takes up about 25megs and sounds very good at 64kb/sec sampling rate... Using Windows Media Player is very quick since it comes with a ripper built in. Microsoft can allow wma over mp3 because there's actually a couple of security flags that ask if you're the licensed owner of the original copy as well. This is more than anything protection for Microsoft, but it's a nice feature to their design.

They can also add in copyright protection and spyware at their convenience.