Explanation of the WMA Format WMA (Windows Media Audio) files offer the same audio clarity level when you
encode a piece of music at 96Kbps that MP3 does when it encodes at 128Kbps.
That is to say approximately the same level of clarity and lack of distortion
and noise that you get from a CD.
What does this 96Kbps (WMA) vs 128 Kbps (MP3) mean? In simple terms this means
that a song that is 3 mins. long that would take up 3MB on a normal MP3 player
can be stored as a 2MB WMA file that sounds just as clear, but takes up 1MB
less space. In a 20GB Player this means that you can store several
THOUSAND more songs than you could if you used MP3s only. Record companies are
keen on wma files as they are easier to impose DMR (copyright protection) rules
onto. Chances are a lot of internet music over the next decade will be released
in the WMA format. It is difficult to imagine the record companies releasing
them as fatter, less secure MP3s.
Currently only some players are WMA enabled. These include:
However, just because a Jukebox is not WMA enabled now, does not necessarily
mean that future firmware upgrades will not support this format. | 
