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Outfox · 12-20-04, 11:06 AM

I like different standards for different things. WMA, in my opinion, has a superior compression schema, allowing it to get better quality at lower rates. However, it's also proprietary to Microsoft meaning that developers have to promise to give Bill Gates their firstborn children in order to use it in their programs (ever notice that practically no third party developers have the decoder for WMA built in?). So I mostly use MP3 because of its ubiquity.

I've heard some really good things about OGG, but unfortunately my CD/MP3 player doesn't support it, so I'm stuck in MP3 land.

Outfox.

12-20-04, 11:06 AM	#15 (permalink)
Outfox Aximsite Rookie Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 70 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I like different standards for different things. WMA, in my opinion, has a superior compression schema, allowing it to get better quality at lower rates. However, it's also proprietary to Microsoft meaning that developers have to promise to give Bill Gates their firstborn children in order to use it in their programs (ever notice that practically no third party developers have the decoder for WMA built in?). So I mostly use MP3 because of its ubiquity. I've heard some really good things about OGG, but unfortunately my CD/MP3 player doesn't support it, so I'm stuck in MP3 land. Outfox.