Windows Media™ Audio (WMA) is a proprietary audio compression format
developed by Microsoft Corporation. A large number of consumer devices,
ranging from portable music players and smartphones to set-top boxes and
DVD players, support the playback of WMA files. WMA is the one of the most
widely used sound encoders, surpassed only by MP3 in terms of the number of
supported devices. WMA STD decoder is a part of the WMA v.9 codec bundle
along with WMA Pro, WMA Lossless and WMA Voice.
SPIRIT WMA Decoder is a highly efficient implementation of the WMA STD
format. The decoder is designed to add WMA decoding functionality to various
portable devices.
Features
Implementation is fully compliant to the Microsoft Windows Media Technology specification
Bitrates from 5 Kbps to 384 Kbps
Sample rates from 8 kHz to 48 kHz
Supports ASF format
Low memory footprint
Low CPU load
Code is reentrant, supports multithreading and dynamic memory allocation
Benefits
Highly optimized code ideal for resource constrained applications
