Quality wise, is Windows Media Audio 10 Professional equivalent to WMA?
- by Louis
I noticed that for encoding CD rips, Zune is still using WMA 9.2 instead of WMA 10 Pro.
On a given file using the highest quality VBR settings looks like this:
VBR Quality 98, 44 kHz, stereo 1-pass VBR
On the same file if I use WMA 10 Pro, with the same settings, the resulting file is about 20% smaller.
Using my ears, I'm unable to tell the difference, but I'm wondering if this was the goal of WMA 10 Pro (to be as good as WMA at a lower bitrate).
Is the quality of a WMA 10 Pro file equal to that of a WMA 9.2 file encoded with the same settings?
