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@Syfe
read this wikipedia entry for WMA.

link: Wikipedia entry

some extracted quotes.

Wikipedia Wrote:Initially Microsoft claimed that files in WMA format sounded better than MP3 files at the same bitrate; Microsoft also claimed that WMA files sounded better than MP3 files at higher bitrates. However, double blind listening tests with other lossy audio codecs have consistently failed to support Microsoft's claims about its superior quality. Indeed, the first independent test (May 2004) with WMA standard encoder provided by the Windows Media 9, conducted at 128 kbps, showed that WMA was roughly equivalent to MP3 encoded with LAME encoder, inferior to AAC and Vorbis, and superior to ATRAC3 (software version) (ATRAC3plus was not evaluated in this test). WMA 10 Pro, however, starting with Windows Media Player 11, is meant to compete against the popular AAC and low bitrate aacPlus, and is clearly superior to ordinary WMA.

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At mid-low bitrates (64 kbps or more, less than 128 kbps), latest private tests (80 kbps (July 2005), 96 kbps (August 2005) show that WMA has a lower quality than the lossy audio codecs AAC (HE and LC) and Vorbis, roughly equivalent quality to MP3, and better quality than MPC. However, it must be remembered that these tests are only individual tests and not collective tests, and also that WMA Pro is not tested.

basically all tests show that wma is only a very tiny over mp3, if at all.

unless, as stated above, u mean by wma10pro, which is a different story completely.

By the way, i have nothing against u or anything. just trying to prove my point ^.^.

Syfe Wrote:i think it was WMP 7 or 8. on win98SE. last year lol.

that cannot encode wma10pro. wma10pro is very new. ur using wma9. [also shown in ur embedded picture]

Syfe Wrote:anyway here's another one, not mine but it's a game track

Coded with a vorbis WMA Codec
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Codec: WMA 158 kbps

ummm. vorbis WMA codec? vorbis and WMA are 2 complete different things. Vorbis is OGG, not WMA.

At a bitrate of 158kbit/s, WMA9 would still sound very good though... And the picture says 165kbit/s.
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