what are the differences in music formats wma, aac, wav?

Answer 1

If what you meant was the difference in quality, of course wav is the best.
Because any other formats you mentioned (wma, aac, mp3) is compressed formats, usualy around 128 kbps sample rate.
While wav uses 44100 kbps sample rate. Wav is the format of most Audio CD you have.

The objective of wma, aac or mp3 are only to save the uses of space in your hard drive, in respect of that, sacrifices the sound quality.

Answer 2

(wma) stands for Windows Media audio files to format on your PC, laptop or MP3 player,

AAC was developed by the MPEG group that includes Dolby, Fraunhofer (FhG), AT&T, Sony and Nokia—companies that have also been involved in the development of audio codecs such as MP3 and AC3 (also known as Dolby Digital). The AAC codec in QuickTime builds upon new, state-of-the art signal processing technology from Dolby Laboratories and brings true variable bit rate (VBR) audio encoding to QuickTime.


A (wav.) Wave file is an audio file format, created by Microsoft, that has become a standard PC audio file format for everything from system and game sounds to CD-quality audio.

Hope it helps!

Answer 3

wma only works on microsoft based mp3 players,, not so sure about quality,, but i do know that it wont work on an ipod,, which plays mp3 and aac.. aac is apple's version of wma,, like wma its designed to work best on it's player,, the ipod.. and wav is lossless,, that means its not compressed at all. its played as is,, the quality is the best, but its also a huge file.

Answer 4

Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a proprietary compressed audio file format developed by Microsoft. It was initially a competitor to the MP3 format, but with the introduction of Apple's iTunes Music Store, it has positioned itself as a competitor to the Advanced Audio Coding format used by Apple and is part of the Windows Media framework.

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Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), also known as MPEG-2 Part 7, and also MPEG-4 Part 3 in a slightly modified form, is a digital audio encoding and lossy compression format. AAC was declared an international standard by the MPEG group by the end of April 1997. It was developed with contributions by Dolby, Fraunhofer (FhG), AT&T, Sony and Nokia.

AAC was designed as an improved-performance codec relative to MP3 (which was specified in MPEG-1) and MPEG-2 Part 3 (which is also known as "MPEG-2 Audio" or ISO/IEC 13818-3).

AAC was promoted as the successor to MP3 for audio coding at medium to high bit rates, though has yet to overtake the MP3 format or Microsoft's rival WMA format in terms of popularity or availability within the portable audio devices market.

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WAV (or WAVE), short for Waveform audio format, is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing audio on PCs. It is a variant of the RIFF bitstream format method for storing data in "chunks", and thus also close to the IFF and the AIFF format used on Macintosh computers. Both WAVs and AIFFs are compatible with Window and Macintosh operating systems. It takes into account some differences of the Intel CPU such as little-endian byte order. The RIFF format acts as a "wrapper" for various audio compression codecs. It is the main format used on Windows systems for raw audio.

Answer 5

they are written differently and some will not allow you to do specific things like if you want to download a song onto and i pod you have to have in aac format

Answer 6

some formats are compressed. such as mp3, wma, ogg, aac, mpc

some formats are uncompressed, such as wav, aiff,

Answer 7

What makes them play.