Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless

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Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless is a lossless audio codec by Microsoft, released in early 2003.

It compresses an audio CD to a range of 206 to 411MB, at bit rates of 470 to 940 kbit/s. Mathematically equivalent to the original audio track, WMA Lossless provides the highest quality WMA format for ripping audio CDs. It uses the same .WMA file extension as other Windows Media Audio formats. It supports 6 discrete channels and up to 24-bit/96kHz lossless audio.

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H.264/MPEG-4 AVC CoreAVC · Nero Digital AVC  · QuickTime H.264 · x264
Lossless CorePNG · FFV1 · Huffyuv · Lagarith · MSU Lossless
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General ADPCM · ATRAC · Dolby Digital · DTS · Musepack · TwinVQ · Vorbis · WMA
Speech/Voice iLBC · IMBE · iSAC · QCELP · RTAudio  · Siren · Speex · Truespeech
Lossless Apple Lossless · Dolby TrueHD · DTS-HD Master Audio · FLAC · Monkey's Audio · OptimFROG · TTA · WavPack · WMA Lossless
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Proprietary ALZip · Archive Utility · MacBinary · PowerArchiver · Squeez · StuffIt · WinAce · WinRAR · WinRK · WinZip
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