WMA or WAV

hallo


which file gonna be bigger if they are made with the same bitrate etc. , so if the compression setup is the same, whats gonna be bigger?

 

You must be confussed. WAV is a container that usualy holds uncompressed PCM audio. WMA is a lossy compression scheme. By nature a lossy compression codec will produce a much smaller file size even at maximum bit-rate.

Do some research...

WAV:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV

WMA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Audio

Ced

 

WAV is uncompressed and very large.

WMA is a compressed lossy format so is always going to be bigger.

 

You may want to rephrase that. It makes no sense at all!

 

I was trying to keep it simple. WAV is a much bigger format than WMA because WAV is not compressed like WMA which is also lossy format. What's so confusing about that?

 

Don't you mean that the WMA is going to be smaller in size?? Since it is compressed, it has to be. Just like an Mp3 file is smaller than a WAV in file size.

 

This is the part where you make it sound like WMA is going to be larger.

 

Oops! Now I see. It was supposed to read

WMA is a compressed lossy format so is always going to be SMALLER.

I guess I got my acronyms mixed up. LOL