New audio format!!!???!!!

[srinathtk]

As per my knowledge, MP3 format is the ofrmat widely used to keep the audio files to the minimum size. But recently one of my friend had given me a ordinary CD of 650MB containing about 1000 songs. When checked, the file extension found to be .wma and the size of each file is less than 1000kb. For example a song of 3.17minutes is having a file size of 503KB. A song of 6.3 minutes is having file size of 984KB. These songs are played in Winamp. Please let me know whether this is a new format??
Is there any software to convert .mp3 or .cda files to this reduced .wma format. Please help me.

Regards

Srinath

[Nuclear Krusader]

Windows Media Audio. It has been around for some time. It's made by M$ so it comes to no surprise it ain't very popular.

Check out these threads also:

http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?threadid=37804&highlight=wma

http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?threadid=37769&highlight=wma

HTH

[morriswindgate]

MP3 or if I remember VOC formats are still the best of the compression formats to retain sound quality.

[Tuf]

wma audio format seems to be coming on strong. Curious to see if it can actually surplant mp3. I don't think it will. But I have read a lot of opinions where that disagree with mine.