Editing Windows Media Audio (section)

==Players==
Apart from Windows Media Player, most of the WMA compression formats can be played using [[ALLPlayer]], [[VLC media player]],<ref name="vlc">{{cite web |url=http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.php?cat=audio |title=VLC playback Features |author=VideoLAN team |access-date=2010-01-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100103042927/http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.php?cat=audio |archive-date=2010-01-03 }}</ref> [[Media Player Classic]],<ref name=mpc-hc>{{cite web|title=Media Player Classic - Player Features|url=http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/media-player-features.html|access-date=2011-08-17|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110816013457/http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/media-player-features.html|archive-date=2011-08-16}}</ref> [[MPlayer]], [[RealPlayer]], [[Winamp]], [[Zune Software]] (with certain limitations&mdash;DSP plugin support and DirectSound output is disabled using the default WMA plugin),{{Citation needed|date=March 2012}} and many other software media players. The Microsoft Zune media management software supports most WMA codecs, but uses a variation of [[Windows Media DRM]] which is used by PlaysForSure.

The [[FFmpeg]] project has reverse-engineered and re-implemented the WMA codecs to allow their use on [[POSIX]]-compliant operating systems such as [[Linux]]. The [[Rockbox]] project further extended this codec to be suitable for embedded cores, allowing playback on portable MP3 players and cell phones running open source software. RealNetworks has announced plans to support playback of DRM-free WMA files in RealPlayer for Linux.<ref name="newsdotcom">{{cite web|last1=Shankland|first1=Stephen|title=Real to plug Windows media support into Linux|url=http://www.cnet.com/news/real-to-plug-windows-media-support-into-linux-1/|website=[[CNET]]|publisher=[[CBS Interactive]]|access-date=5 April 2016|date=17 August 2006|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424152726/http://www.cnet.com/news/real-to-plug-windows-media-support-into-linux-1/|archive-date=24 April 2016}}</ref> On the [[Mac (computer)|Macintosh]] platform, Microsoft released a [[PowerPC]] version of Windows Media Player for [[Mac OS X]] in 2003,<ref name="wmp9mac">{{cite web|url=http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/download/misc/winmp_osx.xml&secid=80&ssid=8&flgnosysreq=True|title=Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OS X|website=[[Microsoft]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070821192229/http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=%2Fmac%2Fdownload%2Fmisc%2Fwinmp_osx.xml&secid=80&ssid=8&flgnosysreq=True|archive-date=2007-08-21}}</ref> but further development of the software has ceased. Microsoft currently endorses the third-party [[Flip4Mac]] WMA, a [[QuickTime]] component that allows Macintosh users to play WMA files in any player that uses the QuickTime framework.<ref name="flip4mac">{{cite web|url=http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/otherproducts.aspx?pid=windowsmedia|title=Important information for Windows Media Player for Mac users|website=[[Microsoft]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070822133715/http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/otherproducts.aspx?pid=windowsmedia|archive-date=2007-08-22}}</ref> Flip4Mac, however, does not currently support the Windows Media Audio Voice codec.<ref name="flip4macwmavoice">{{cite web|url=http://forum.telestream.net/forum/messageview.aspx?catid=9&threadid=3052|title=Flip4Mac forum post discussing WMA Voice support|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090701100022/http://forum.telestream.net/forum/messageview.aspx?catid=9&threadid=3052|archive-date=2009-07-01|access-date=2010-01-26}}</ref>

The core [[Android (operating system)|Android platform]] does not itself support WMA, but there is third-party WMA software for Android devices.<ref>{{cite web | author=Cooper | title=Three Methods of How to Play WMA on Android | website=WonderFox| url=https://www.videoconverterfactory.com/tips/play-wma-on-android.html | date=27 February 2023}}</ref>

WMA format can be played on almost all Windows Mobile and later Windows Phone devices.