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wma is windows media audio. Its like MP3 on steroids with an alarm. it is a secure format designed by microsoft to stop internet music piracy. AKA, the wma file can't be made or played on any comp except for the comp that the original Cd has been recorded from. although WMA sounds just as good as mp3 at half the bit rate (64kb=cd quality in wma format, 128kb/s=cd quality in MP3 format), you can't distribute the files as easily, and you can only make WMA from Cd's you own (its hard to find non copyrighted files to download). but becuase of WMA's much smaller file size (about half at the same quality as MP3), you can fit more music on a standard Cd using WMA than you can MP3.