Windows Media Audio files are a specialized form of Advanced Streaming Format (ASF) files. These files contain audio data that is compressed using a new high-quality lossy audio compression scheme called Windows Media™ Audio codec. A recent studies have shown that Windows Media audio files have the same quality as CDs at only half the size of comparable MP3 files.
IMPORTANT
The Microsoft WMA licence states clearly that WMA files must NOT be converted to any other audio format, including the wave format. This extends to all WMA files, i.e. also to the files created by the user. For this reason no WMA decoder is provided. Note, however, that DART CD-Recorder Basic allows you to save WMA files to an audio CD, i.e. to convert such files to standard CD audio tracks.