Advanced WMA Workshop 1.55 available

January 21, 2002

kot used our newssubmit to tell us that he has released Advanced WMA Workshop 1.55 today.

Advanced WMA Workshop is an encoder/decoder with the Windows Explorer-like interface, allowing you to encode WAV, MP3 and OGG files to WMA (Windows Media Audio) format with variety of

format settings.

What's new in this version:

Play button added to main toolbar, now you can listen quickly your WMA, MP3, OGG, WAV files and audio tracks before conversion.

LAME version 3.91 implemented, it adds speed and quality to mp3 encoding.

Vorbis SDK 1.0 RC3 is implemented

Fixed bug with ID3 Tag v2 and Xing VBR header in mp3 files with variable bitrate.

Some minor code optimizations and bugfixes

Audio formats conversion is performed directly, without any temporary WAV files, this fact means higher converting speed and economy of hard disk resource.

Advanced WMA Workshop internally supports (it's not GUI frontend) WMA 8 format, WMA 8 encoder improve quality of encoded audio of 30 to 50 percent over WMA 7.

You can encode and decode audio files one by one, and also you can use built-in batch process to increase perfomance in case of mass encoding/decoding.

More information and downloads can be found at the site of LitexMedia.

Source: Litexmedia