Active WMA Studio is an audio conversion utility with and Explorer-like interface. It allows you to encode WAV, MP3 and OGG files to WMA (Windows Media Audio) format with a lot of format options (from 8000 to 48000Hz, up to 192kbps), convert WMA and MP3 files to WAV PCM format, convert WMA files to MP3 format with LAME encoder library, convert WMA to OGG Vorbis format, resample WMA files, and grab audio CDs into WMA. Audio formats conversion process takes place in real time, without any temporary WAV files. This means the high conversion speed and does not takes hard disk resources. It internally supports the WMA 8 format. WMA 8 encoder improves the quality of encoded audio of 30 to 50 percents over WMA 7. You can convert and encode audio files one by one, also you can use built-in batch queue to increase perfomance in case of mass encoding/decoding. It allows you to edit ID3v2 Tags, copy it from MP3 to WMA and from WMA to MP3 file while recoding. The built-in CD ripper allows you to grab tracks from the audio CD into WMA files and the CDDB and LocalDB options provides you with convient access to songs titles and artists information.