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Windows Media Audio

audio data compression technology
Thing lossy_audio_coding_format Q2194

Facts

6 properties
Instance of
lossy audio coding format, proprietary file format[2]
Part of
Windows Media[4]
Described by source
Advanced Systems Format (ASF) Specification, version 01.20.03[7]
Developer
Microsoft[3]
File extension
wma[6]
Media type
audio/x-ms-wma[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en Windows Media Audio en Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless en .wma en WMA ar نظام ويندوز الصوتي id WMA id .wma it WMA ja XMAフォーマット ko 윈도 미디어 오디오 nl WMA tr Windows Ortam Sesi
🔖 Identifiers · 12
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
136214262
Described at URL
support.microsoft.com
Exact match
rs.tdwg.org
Fandom article ID
apple:Windows_Media_Audio
File Format Wiki page ID
WMA
Freebase ID
/m/086t0
LC and MARC vocabularies ID
mencformat/wma
Library of Congress Format Description Document ID
fdd000027
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2776949974
NARA File Format Preservation Plan ID
NF00446
PRONOM file format ID
fmt/132
Uniform Type Identifier
com.microsoft.windows-media-wma
🔗 Connections
← Readable file format 16
IrfanView, ACDSee, Media Player (Windows 11), ExifTool, Music on Console, Freemake Video Converter, NVivo, Cross-platform Audio Creation Tool +8 more
Belongs to 1
Advanced Systems Format
Developer 1
Microsoft
Instance of 1
proprietary file format
← Resistance in Belgium ID 1
Moerkerke
← SNARC ID 1
Ulm
← TDKIV Wikibase ID 1
Evangeliary
← Writable file format 1
Creator NXT 2
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Summary

Windows Media Audio is a lossy audio coding format[1].

Related Entities

Creator NXT 2 Microsoft Windows Media Player, version 10

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  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . msdn.microsoft.com. Retrieved . msdn.microsoft.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . msdn.microsoft.com. Retrieved . msdn.microsoft.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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