What is the difference between .au and .wma?
- Extension
- .au
- .wma
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Audacity
- Microsoft
- Description
- Audio file created by Audacity, a free, cross platform audio editor; uses a proprietary format that can only be opened by Audacity; saved as one of multiple audio data files for an Audacity project (.AUD).
- A WMA file is an audio file saved in the Advanced Systems Format (ASF) proprietary format developed by Microsoft. It contains Windows Media Audio and metadata objects such as the title, artist, album, and genre of the track. WMA files are similar to .MP3 files and primarily used for streaming music from the web.
- MIME Type
- audio/basic
- audio/x-ms-wma
- Sample
- sample.au
- sample.wma
- Wikipedia
- .au on Wikipedia
- .wma on Wikipedia