1. By: Cheidalisse Feliciano & Ki’rah Howard

2. WMAMP3  Windows Media Audio (WMA) is an audio data compression technology developed by Microsoft.  The definition of MP3 means a compression of a sound sequence into a very small file, to enable digital storage and transmission.

3. ProsCons  Plays on xbox360 and MCE2005  Plays on Music Match and can be tagged with Super Tagging.  Album art can be tagged into file vs. using folder.jpg.  Sounds the same as other lossless formats like FLAC.  WMA format is the format's support of DRM, or Digital Rights Management.  Decode time.  Any issues around DRM.  The WMA format is the lack of support from third party devices such as MP3 players  Although some support WMA files, such as Microsoft's own Zune, many do not.  The Apple iPod does not support WMA.

4. ProsCons  Widespread acceptance, support in nearly all hardware audio players and devices.  An ISO standard, part of MPEG specs.  Fast decoding, lower complexity than AAC or Vorbis.  Anyone can create their own implementation (Specs and demo sources available)  Relaxed licensing schedule  Lower performance/efficiency than modern codecs  Problem cases that trip out all transform codecs  Sometimes, maximum bitrate (320kbps) isn’t enough.  No multichannel implementations.  Unusable for high definition audio

5. Best time to use MP3Best time to use WMA  To listen to music.  To clean up.  You can burn CDS on it.  You can download samples of music to your phone.