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Topic: Windows Media Audio


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In the News (Sun 22 Nov 09)

  
  Windows Media Player 9 Series
Find product information and support options for Windows Media Player 9 Series.
Windows Media Player 9 Series (for Windows 98 SE, Windows Millennium Edition, and Windows 2000)
Windows XP users: Windows Media Player 9 Series is no longer available for Windows XP.
www.microsoft.com /windows/windowsmedia/9series/player.aspx   (60 words)

  
  Windows Media Audio - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
An initial reason for the development of WMA might have been that MP3 technology is patented and has to be licensed from Thomson SA for inclusion in the Microsoft Windows operating system.
Windows Media Audio supports digital rights management using a combination of elliptic curve cryptography key exchange, DES block cipher, a custom block cipher, RC4 stream cipher and the SHA-1 hashing function.
The most current version of the format is Windows Media Audio 9.1 which includes specific codecs for lossless, multi-channel surround sound and voice encoding in addition to the main lossy codec.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/WMA   (415 words)

  
 Microsoft Windows Media Player - Free Software Downloads and Software Reviews - Download.com
Windows Media Player 7.1 consists of seven features in a single application: a CD player, an audio and video player, a media jukebox, a media guide, an Internet radio tuner, a portable device you can transfer music files to, and an audio CD burner.
An audio CD creator and a unified player also are included with the program.
Version 7.1 adds Windows Media Audio 8 encoding, Windows Media Audio and Video 8 decoding, new smart transcoding support for high-quality transferring to portable devices, and other enhancements and bug fixes.
www.download.com /3000-2139-5948260.html   (295 words)

  
 Windows Media Audio Professional Codec Features   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Using Windows Media Encoder 9 Series to transcode multichannel content that was encoded with the Windows Media Audio Professional codec into two-channel content using a version 8 or later codec.
If the audio card is sending its output to a consumer audio/video receiver with a Matrix Decoder, the receiver will be able to decode the input signal back to four channels (left, right, center, and surround) for a surround sound experience.
If you are using the Windows Media Format SDK to build an encoding application, you should provide a user interface that allows content authors to specify the target values.
msdn.microsoft.com /library/en-us/dnwmt/html/WMA9_Multichannel.asp?frame=true   (2375 words)

  
 dBpoweramp Codec Central Windows Media Audio
Different versions of WMA are confusing to say the least, not least because they do not go up in consecutive version numbers.
Windows Media Audio v2 was the first, then v4, v7, v8, v9, v9.1 (and v9 PRO), v9.2 and v10 PRO.
Windows Media Audio 9.2 (not voice, lossless or professional) is backwards compatible with all playback devices.
www.dbpoweramp.com /codec-central-windows-media-audio.htm   (137 words)

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