WMA9.1 versus WMA9 question for Naveen Thumpudi and Zach

Hi Naveen, Zach,

About a year ago there was a short but interesting discussion on
this forum between me and Naveen about the size of VBR encoded
WMA-musicfiles. Encoded with WMA9.1 (WMA10) the files came out
over 25% larger with higher average bitrates.

This was confirmed as a bug in the WMA9.1 encoder by Naveen and
was scheduled to be solved in an update of the WMA10 mediaplayer.

Recently I downloaded WMA10 again and noticed the version-# had
changed. My question now is whether this VBR-size bug has been
solved in this new version. Could any of you please shine some
light on this?

Thanks for your time,

Quadx

 

I personally don't know (I didn't follow out, and since it's 8AM on a
Saturday morning and I'm still at work from the night before, I'd probably
suggest you would be in a much better place to spend the time answering the
question. =)

I believe I vaguely recall what you were referring to, but I did not track
that at all, and as such I'd be in about square one in terms of internal
investigation, so would have to do the same basic test you would do. =)

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i am trying to avoid that basic test you are referring too.

isn't there a release notes on windows media player 10
downloadable?

quadx

 

Not to the level you're referring to, no. I'm not aware of MS ever doing
that kind of thing.