Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Technical Questions MP3 vs. WMA

MP3 is an aging format. New research into psychoacoustics and compression algorithms since then have resulted in improved audio quality. So at similar bitrates a WMA file should sound better than an MP3. Or put another way, one could use less space to store a lower bitrate WMA file which had the same quality of a larger MP3.

That said, WMA is a proprietary format of Microsoft and isn't supported by all players.

Lossless wave files are more than likely able to be played by your player. The biggest problem with them is their size. They are 10x larger than MP3s. An entire album will run around 600 MB, so an 8 GB player will only hold about 14 CDs. But yes, it is truly lossless (allowing for error-free rips).