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Converting WAV to WMA is free: drop your WAV above, hit convert, and download the WMA. Files delete themselves within an hour.
Converting WAV to WMA trades perfection for portability: your WAV keeps every sample it was born with, while WMA is built for keeping aging Windows Media software and old archives happy. At a sensible bitrate the difference is genuinely hard to hear, but it's a one-way door: hold on to the WAV original if it's precious, because no WMA can hand those samples back.
One-way door: WMA is lossy, so this conversion throws data away to get small. Keep the WAV original if you might ever need full quality again.
WAV is audio with nothing taken away: every sample intact, every megabyte accounted for. It was born in 1991, Microsoft and IBM, and its real weak spot is being carried around: it refuses to shrink.
WMA is Windows' old house band: big in the early 2000s, mostly retired now. Windows Media Audio, in several variants including a rarely-sighted lossless one. That makes it the right destination when what you need is keeping aging Windows Media software and old archives happy.
Drop your WAV file into the flipper above, or click to browse for it.
Check the output format: WMA is already selected for you.
Hit Convert, give it a moment, then download your new WMA.
| WAV | WMA | |
|---|---|---|
| Born | 1991, Microsoft and IBM | 1999, Microsoft |
| Type | audio · uncompressed | audio · lossy |
| Best for | recording, editing and mastering, where every last bit matters | keeping aging Windows Media software and old archives happy |
| Weak spot | being carried around: it refuses to shrink | the modern world: Apple devices, browsers and most apps have moved on |
| Typical size | about 10 MB per minute at CD quality: ten times the size of an MP3 | MP3-ish sizes; the famous 'CD quality at 64 kbps' claim never quite landed |
| Plays on | Universal on desktops and pro audio gear; clumsy on the mobile web. | Windows Media Player and legacy Microsoft software; little else without help. |
A little, by design: WMA is a lossy format. At 192 kbps or above most people can't tell the difference, but the discarded data can't be recovered later.
Dramatically smaller. WAV runs about 10 MB per minute at CD quality: ten times the size of an MP3; WMA comes in at MP3-ish sizes; the famous 'CD quality at 64 kbps' claim never quite landed.
Windows Media Player and legacy Microsoft software; little else without help. That's the usual reason people leave WAV behind: WMA simply opens in more of the places that matter.
Seconds for most files: audio is light work. A long recording might take a minute; your file auto-deletes from our servers within an hour either way.