WMA Player for Mac

Windows Media Audio (WMA) is an audio data compression technology developed by Microsoft. The name can be used to refer to its audio file format or its audio codecs. A WMA file is in most circumstances encapsulated, or contained, in the Advanced Systems Format (ASF) container format, featuring a single audio track in one of following codecs: WMA, WMA Pro, WMA Lossless, or WMA Voice. This container can optionally support digital rights management (DRM) using a combination of elliptic curve cryptography key exchange, DES block cipher, a custom block cipher, RC4 stream cipher and the SHA-1 hashing function. You can play WMAs on your Mac using WMA player software, here are some of the best WMA players for Mac.

Windows Media Player for Mac

Windows Media Player for Mac offers great new ways to store and enjoy all your music, video, pictures, and recorded TV. Windows Media Player for Mac play Windows Media Audio (.wma) and Windows Media Video (.wmv) files on Mac OS X or QuickTime Player.

Introducing Windows Media Player for Mac. Sporting a new brushed steel skin for Apple's newest operating system, this new version of our player opens the world of Windows Media Player 9 content to Macintosh users, enabling them to access the best audio and video on the Web. New plug-in support added for Internet Explorer, Netscape and Safari enables playback of Windows Media files right from the browser. Windows Media Player for Mac Download

VLC Media Player for Mac

VLC Media Player for Mac is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats for Mac OS X. VLC Media Player supports lots of media formats, including the standard formats such as MP3, MPEG, DivX and AVI; many of the individual formats such as RealVideo, WMA, WMV and QuickTime; and quite a few incredible formats such as Ascii art. Thus, it can be described as a one - way solution to multi media formats.

VLC Media Player for Mac can also function as a streaming media server. VLC Media Player is based on an open-source foundation, therefore, Updates, fixes, and addons are released frequently.

VLC Media Player for Mac is a must-have Mac media player and Mac DVD player for its ability to open just about any type of video file you throw at it. VLC Media Player for Mac Download

Music Man for Mac

Music Man for Mac - Discover the easy way to rip, convert, burn and play MP3, WAV, unprotected WMA, AAC, M4A, M4B, MP2, Ogg Vorbis, AIFF and midi on Mac OS X. Whether you want to rip, convert, burn or play music, Music Man for Mac is the digital music software for Mac OS X that does it all. Learn more about the software that offers all the features you want in an easy to use music player that also includes ripper, converter and burner features.

Key Features of Music Man for Mac: 1) Play Audio CD, MP2, MP3, WMA, Wav, AAC (M4A, M4B, M4P), Ogg Vorbis, Midi on Mac OS X; 2) Play from your Mac, from CD, From DVD, from Flash Drive; 3) Rip Audio CD to MP3, WMA, AAC (M4A, M4B), MP2, WAV or to Ogg Vorbis; 4) Convert from Audio CD, unprotected AAC (m4a, m4b), MP2, MP3, WAV, unprotected WMA, Ogg Vorbis, AIFF, midi; 5) Convert to Audio CD, AAC, MP2, MP3, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, WMA; 6) Burn music to CD, DVD or USB Flash Drive Memory... Music Man for Mac Download

Flip4Mac WMV

Flip4Mac WMV Plugin can be used with most QuickTime based applications, including QuickTime Player, iMovie '06, Final Cut Pro and more.

With the Windows Media Components for QuickTime by Flip4Mac, you can play Windows Media files (.wma and .wmv) in QuickTime Player and view Windows Media content on the Internet using a web browser.

After installing Flip4Mac WMV Plugin you can play Windows Media files using QuickTime Player and view Windows Media content on the Internet using Safari and other Web browsers. By upgrading Flip4Mac WMV Plugin you will be able to import Windows Media files for editing and create Windows Media files for distribution. These features are optional, but are available in trial mode until you're ready to purchase an upgrade. Flip4Mac WMV Download

MPlayer OSX

MPlayer OSX is project based on MPlayer (The Movie Player for Linux) port to Mac OS X platform. MPlayer OSX consist of compiled binaries of mplayer and mencoder, separate GUI for mencoder and standalone Cocoa player application based on mplayer binaries.

MPlayer OSX impresses by playing virtually any video file type. These include MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ and PVA files. It also supports many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs, and enables you to watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies.

MPlayer OSX has very good postprocessing. On every image in the movie is applied a filter to reduce square areas, which comes from codec's compression algorithm. MPlayer OSX Download