Microsoft: WMA Is Kicking Butt

If I can remember correctly, although portable devices seem to focus their marketing statements only in MP3 support, there are plenty of those devices that support ogg, but nobody knows it (check www.vorbis.com for more details). Both MP4AAC and OGG play pretty well in the digital music scene. Both in my opinion are serious proofs of progress in small bandwidth-based audio compression schemes. And now, seems that xiph's new format, CELT, (still in development status) is a great promise for the future for hi-quality lossy audio.

My music collection is mostly MP3s, with some WMAs and OGGs now and then. MP3, at 128kbps, is far smaller than WMA, and OGG is nice, but it isn't supported by that many portable music players.

Wma codec sucks. I prefer aac or ogg =)

I am a Mac & Pc user I store my whole music collection on several hard drives and I have to say for space MP3 quality sucks. I my humble opinion WMA is the best format for storing large quantities of music with any decent playback quality

It's true: WMA's (and Microsoft's) butt IS getting kicked--hard. Deservedly so, in my opinion.