### WMA

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- Developed in 1999 by Microsoft
- Very poor software support
- Patented with royalties
- Lossless and Lossy versions
- Supports:
    - 24-bit sampling depth
    - 96kHz sampling rate
    - 8* audio channels

Note:

Okay there's a little more to say about it.
WMA was originally developed in 1999 by none other than Microsoft in
order to replace MP3 and WAV. Software support is extremely poor, so poor in fact
that I could not even make audio samples for this presentation, let alone play them.

This may surprise you, but WMA is both patented and has royalties for its use.

WMA does come in both lossy and lossless versions, but they both are kinda garbage.

It does however support up to 24-bit sampling depth, 96kHz sampling rate and up to 8 channels,
as long as you're using the lossy version.

Designed to replace MP3 and WAV
WMA Lossless only supports 6 channels
Microsoft lied about the audio quality
FFmpeg only supportes WMAv1 lossy and WMAv2 lossy

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