WMA

📚 Key Takeaways:

📌 What does the WMA stand for? WMV is short for Windows Media Audio. It is a propriety audio format developed by Microsoft. The WMA file extension is a container format, which employs one of the following WMA codecs: Windows Media Audio, Windows Media Audio Professional, Windows Media Audio Lossless, Windows Media Audio Voice.

📌 What is a WMA file? A WMA file is essentially an ASF file containing audio data only compressed with different WMA codecs. Similar to MP3, generic WMA files contain lossy audio data. However, files encoded by the WMA Lossless codec use the same .wma extension as other Windows Media Audio formats but provide the highest quality equivalent to the original audio track. WMA files are commonly used for streaming music online and are natively supported by Windows Media Player.

📌 What program opens WMA files? WMA files with different compression standards offers various audio quality and device compatibility. To open a .wma file, you can use the default Windows media players or some third-party media players like VLC, Potplayer, Media Player Classic, MPlayer, RealPlayer, or Winamp. Or, you can convert WMA to other preferred formats using WonderFox HD Video Converter Factory Pro.