Step 1: Provide your WAV files using the button above or by toss and let go.
Step 2: Click the 'Convert' button to start the conversion.
Step 3: Fetch your converted WMA files.
WAV to WMA Conversion FAQ
What bitrate does the WMA file end up at?
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A lossy WMA is encoded at 192 kbps by default. The Audio Quality setting also offers 320 kbps for the best quality and 128 kbps for a smaller file. A lossless WMA (WAV, FLAC) ignores the bitrate and keeps every sample.
How much quality do I lose converting WAV to WMA?
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Some, and it is permanent — this is the one direction where information is genuinely thrown away. WAV holds every sample exactly; WMA discards what a psychoacoustic model predicts you will not hear. At 192 kbps and above that prediction is good enough to be transparent on most material and most equipment. Keep the WAV as your master, because you cannot get back to it from the WMA. WAV normally stores raw uncompressed PCM — every sample kept exactly, at whatever bit depth and sample rate was captured. WMA is lossy by default, in an ASF container, with lossless and voice-optimised variants that are rarely encountered.
Can I tag the WMA with artist and album information?
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Yes, and it is a genuine gain over WAV, which has nowhere dependable to store any of it. WMA carries title, artist, album, year, track number and embedded cover art in the container itself, so a music library files it correctly without a manual pass. WMA compressed better than contemporary MP3 encoders and remains readable by Windows Media Player and old PlaysForSure devices.
Will the WMA play in my car or on older hardware?
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Often not. WAV is decoded by essentially everything, including car head units and elderly players; WMA needs software that knows the codec, which standalone hardware frequently does not have. If the destination is a car stereo or a portable player, that is a strong argument for staying on WAV. WMA is unsupported almost everywhere outside Windows, and older WMA files may carry DRM that blocks conversion entirely.
Will going from WAV to WMA actually reduce my audio quality?
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If WAV is lossy (MP3, AAC) and WMA is lossless (WAV, FLAC), the WMA is no better than the WAV — you cannot recover information already discarded by the lossy WAV codec. If WAV is lossless and WMA is lossy, expect the WMA encoder to recompress; at 192 kbps the loss is imperceptible to most ears.
Can I batch-convert hundreds of WAV files into WMA?
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Several files in one job need a paid plan. Free use is one file per conversion, one conversion an hour. On a paid plan you can add several files to one job, then download each result on its own or all of them in one ZIP.
Can I normalize loudness in the WAV to WMA step?
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Not in this step. The converter has no loudness setting and leaves the level as it is. To even out the volume, run the finished WMA through a Normalize tool on this site.
Will the WMA play on my car stereo / iPod / Sonos / Bluetooth speaker?
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MP3 plays almost everywhere. AAC plays on Apple devices, most Android phones and Sonos. FLAC plays on Sonos and Android but not on older iPods, and WAV plays on nearly everything but makes large files. There are no device presets on this page, so choose the target format your player supports.
Is my WAV file private during conversion?
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Yes. Uploaded WAV files are processed on our own conversion servers, no person reviews them, and they are never shared. The upload and the converted WMA are both deleted automatically about 24 hours after the conversion, which leaves time to download the result. See /privacy/ for the full policy.
