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title: Windows Media Player 8
date: "2001-04-05T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1840
description: Windows Media Player 8 introduces a new media format claiming better compression than MP3. The software allows users to convert audio and video files into this more efficient digital format for Windows-based playback.
keywords: [windows media player 8, wma, audio compression, video conversion, mp3, microsoft]
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[Windows Media Player 8](http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/en/WM8/default.asp) lets you convert audio & video files into its new format. It compresses better than MP3, apparantly.