Format

Microsoft xWMA

Summary

Name: Microsoft xWMA
Identifiers: PUID: fmt/923
Format type: Audio
Description: The Microsoft xWMA format is an audio container/codec format used by XAudio 2.
File extensions: xwma
Source: Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Developed by: Microsoft Corporation
Supported by: Microsoft Corporation

Relationships

Has priority over

Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF)

Internal signatures

xWMA

Note: BOF: 'RIFF{4}XWMAfmt '

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length: Absolute from BOF
Offset: 0
Max offset: 0
Byte Sequence: 52494646{4}58574D41666D7420
Endianness: None

Changelog

Updated in V114

Release date

22 August 2023

Microsoft xWMA: Added priority over fmt/1886. Submitted by New York Public Libraries and Preservica.
Added in V86

Release date

27 July 2016

Microsoft xWMA: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.

Microsoft xWMA: Full entry added.