Comdex '99: Microsoft Trumpets MP3 Alternative
News Microsoft announced a host of deals and partnerships at Comdex Tuesday around its Windows Media Audio (WMA) digital music format. In a shameless effort to catch the organisation's eye, Microsoft showed the first live demonstration of a song in WMA...
[November 17, 1999, 9:01]
WMA Hurts MP3 But Streaming Is Key Says Analyst
News The Windows Media Audio (WMA) format on Monday got a boost in its battle against MP3, with digital distribution company Dx3 selecting Microsoft's format for its music distribution network. The company said it chose WMA over MP3, because of numerous...
[January 26, 2000, 8:57]
Windows Media Joiner
Downloads Windows Media Joiner can be used to join multiple WMA or WMV files together. You can also join WMA and MP3 files or WMV and MPEG files together into a single Windows Media Audio or Windows Media Video file.
[May 7, 2007, 23:31]
Media-DRM Packager
Downloads You can batch create new license profiles and encrypt media files with Media-DRM packager.Media-DRM enables you to use the major Windows Media format, Windows Media Audio format (file with a .wma file name extension) or Windows Media Video format...
[April 28, 2007, 17:46]
Microsoft Offers A 'tune-up' For XP
News Windows Media Player packs digital rights management (DRM) technology Microsoft hopes will woo content providers to WMA. Running the conversion utility transforms MP3 files to Microsoft's Windows Media Audio (WMA) file format.
[December 13, 2001, 15:57]
Unreal Media Server
Downloads Supported file formats: AVI(DivX, XVid, any encoding), MPEG-1/2/4, WMV/WMA, ASF, MP3, QuickTime. Codecs used for live video compression: WMV and MPEG4; for live audio: WMA, MP3 and GSM 6.10. Unreal Media Server is a streaming server for Windows...
[December 7, 2007, 8:31]
Microsoft Releases XP Add-ons For MP3
News Without the add-on packs, Windows XP will play MP3s but can only be used to create copies of songs from CDs in Microsoft's own Windows Media Audio (WMA) format. Windows XP contains digital rights management software--designed specifically to work...
[October 23, 2001, 10:26]
Microsoft Changes Its Tune On MP3 Ripping
News No matter what Microsoft's reasons for solidifying MP3 support in Windows XP, the add-on packs give "users the full flexibility of choice for creating their music collections, whether it is using WMA to get CD-quality sound in half the file size...
[July 16, 2001, 11:06]
Windows XP And MP3s May Not Mix
News Although previous versions of its operating system have supported MP3 rippers from other companies, Microsoft's own audio and video software, Windows Media Player, has converted audio files only to the Windows Media format, dubbed WMA.
[June 13, 2001, 9:50]
Microsoft Looks To Extend Digital Media Reach
News WMA Professional will debut with Corona, a new version of Windows Media Player coming later this year. It's a tactic familiar to Microsoft with its Windows Media Audio (WMA) format, whose particulars the company locked down three years ago.
[April 18, 2002, 7:31]
RealNetworks Cries Foul Over Microsoft Antitrust Case
Talkback Whereas if I'm buying WMA encoded tunes, I can only ever play them on Windows. Buying RealNetworks tunes gives me more flexibility than buying WMA tunes. It is probably only coincidence that millions of people agree with me as far as Windows Media...
[April 1, 2005, 12:48]
Linux 'needs DRM Support' For Consumer Success
Talkback I've used DRM in the past and it just gets in the way, the best was Microsofts WMA, after getting around 20GB's of WMA's, Windows trashed itself and I had to re-install, WMP complained that all of my media wasn't mine, so I had to go and get it...
[April 7, 2006, 13:25]
Olympus DM-20 Conference Kit review
Reviews However, with both Digital Speech Standard (DSS) and Windows Media Audio (WMA) encoding, this is good for 280 minutes in Stereo High Quality (SHQ) mode, or over 44 hours in Long Play (LP) mode (HQ and SP modes are also provided).
[April 1, 2004, 9:35]
Advanced WMA MP3 Converter
Downloads Advanced WMA MP3 Converter is the WMA to MP3 audio conversion software product with Windows Explorer-like user interface, It allows you to encode WAV, MP3, and OGG files to WMA (Windows Media Audio) format with a couple of format settings (from...
[October 29, 2006, 9:31]
WMA MP3 Converter
Downloads WMA MP3 Converter converts WMA (Windows Media Audio), WMV (Windows Media Video), and ASF (Advanced Systems Format) files into MP3 and WAV formats, and converts WAV, MP3, WMV, and ASF into WMA format, and resample WMA files.
[June 30, 2008, 14:46]
CD To MP3 Ripper
Downloads CD to MP3 Ripper rips audio CD tracks and converts them into audio formats such as mp3, wav, wma (Windows Media Audio), VQF (Yamaha SoundVQ), or OGG Vorbis, converts MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG Vorbis from one to another on-the-fly, resamples MP3 to MP3...
[August 29, 2008, 14:46]
Super MP3 Converter
Downloads Super MP3 Converter converts audio files among MP3, WAV, WMA (Windows Media Audio), OGG, VQF, and AC3 (VOB) formats. Super MP3 Converter also supports playback of all audio files with its built-in player as well as audio-volume normalization, and...
[January 17, 2006, 9:01]
AimOne ASF/WMV/WMA Cutter & Joiner
Downloads AimOne ASF/WMV/WMA Cutter & Joiner is a powerful Windows Media(.asf, wmv, .wma) movie edit tool. ASF/WMV/WMA Cutter allows you split/cut ASF/WMV/WMA file into small files, or extract manually selected segments of an asf/wmv/wma file to new files.
[July 30, 2008, 7:46]
TCPlayer
Downloads TCPlayer is an MP3/WMA media player for use on Windows networks. Run the server program on the computer with speakers and control the player from anywhere on the network using the client application. Tracks can be selected from up to 5 sources...
[April 3, 2005, 23:16]
SolveigMM WMP Trimmer Plugin
Downloads SolveigMM WMP Trimmer plug-in is a fast and small tool to cut without loss AVI, WMV, ASF, MP3, and WMA files loaded to Windows Media Player. No quality degradation, no out of sync problems, no AVI size restrictions.
[October 14, 2008, 21:01]
