[vorbis] wma8 decodings

[Jonathan Gramain]

For those who want to encode and decode from and to different codecs (WMA,
MP3, OGG :)...), there's a pretty good tool, a freeware for windows users at
http://www.dbpoweramp.com. Simple and efficient.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jack Moffitt <jack at xiph.org>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 9:16 PM
Subject: [vorbis] wma8 decodings

> Monty wanted some samples with which to compare Vorbis and WMA, and he
> doesn't have a Win32 machine, so I made some.
>
> Microsoft has made their own demo samples available at:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/en/WM8/audio.asp
>
> I took their original .wav's, and encoded them with their wma8 encoder
> utility (WM8EUTIL.EXE), using all of the available stereo modes at
> 44.1kHz.  This includes, 192, 160, 128, 96, 80, 64, 48, 32 kbps.  I then
> used the Advanced WMA Workshop
> (http://www.litexmedia.com/?from_WMAWorkshop) to decode the .wma's back
> into WAV.  This is the only program that would let me decode more than
> half the damn file, without paying $30.  I can't believe people charge
> money for these trivial wrapper around Microsoft's filters.
>
> The resulting wavs and the original wavs (each 5.2MB) are available
> here:
>
> http://www.vorbis.com/~jack/wma8/
>
> Let the fun begin :)
>
> jack.
>
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