Hi Bruce. The obvious advantages are: WMA is supported by many players and is probably the next most supported format to MP3 WMA supports ID3 tags and so is supported by many software music databases for managing music collections WMA can be burned directly to audio CD's because most burning software programs support direct conversion from WMA to CDDA - I'm not aware of any that will do this for Flak WMA sounds damn good - there has been some subjective discussion here on the comparison between MP3 and WMA, some of which seems very anti-Microsoft based tripe rather than objective considerations and evidence based. The fact is that MP3 is the oldest encoding technology around and lacks the recent development that's been put into more modern encoders such as WMA. It's true that DRM is a driver for music sites to adopt WMA but you can't sell crap quality music so it would not make sense for the industry to adopt a technology that wasn't going to provide the best quality for the best file size. I've personally done much testing over the past 5 to 6 years and have switched from MP3 to WMA based on the evidence of playback on my computer, on my portable player and on my Linn hi-fi. It was painful to rip my collection all over but I can tell you that the difference in quality is absolutely apparent and that pain has been rewarded.
Regards. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Toews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 4:26 PM Subject: RE: Windows Media Audio Does WMA Lossless ahve any advantage over FLAC or vice versa? Bruce -- Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. John 1:12 NIV Bruce Toews E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Radio Show and Podcast: http://www.totw.net Web Site (including info on my weekly commentaries): http://www.ogts.net Info on the Best TV Show of All Time: http://www.cornergas.com On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, André van Deventer wrote: > Understandable. > > I still prefer to encode in wma lossless if at all possible when ripping > cds. I have had no problems with this format at all. > > Andre > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Brandon Hicks > Sent: 04 July 2006 04:06 PM > To: PC audio discussion list. > Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio > > hi andre, > The reason most things use WMA as there encoder is because it has "good" DRM > capabilities now and is well integrated into windows media player. > > Brandon Hicks > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Skype: callto://reyuth > msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we > offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
