Dave, you are correct in wondering. You can erase the WMA files if you like.

We had a discussion about this when the audiophile version first came out. Given the relative sizes, you would have to erase about ten or eleven WMA files to equal the size of one WAV file. It may not be worth the effort unless hard drive space is critical. I did it, though, on my netbook, where the hard drive is small. I used a directory manager, sorted by extension, and blew the WMA files away in each Real Tracks folder. Note that I only put a few critical Real Tracks on the netbook, just enough to compose with while traveling, so it wasn't a big job to delete files.


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