On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 10:09 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
Do not be mistaken. WMA is patented, proprietary, and closed-source. FFMPEG is not legal in the USA.
That's what I thought, and was surprised to find a supposedly "free" codec for it.
Ideally you should convert any WMA over to at least MP3 and at best OGG Vorbis or FLAC.
Ideally I wouldn't touch WMA with a ten foot bargepole. But, occasionally, I want to listen to something off a website. I do use ogg vorbis for my own encoding. And I've never found MP3s to encode well, on any system, I can always hear nasty sound effects, even at very high bit rates.