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The converter easily converts your AWB file to various formats - free and online. No Media Player or extra software needed.
The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other Audio formats to AWB with high quality output.
The .awb extension represents two distinct audio formats, creating a common point of confusion for users.
The most common use is Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband, a high-definition speech compression format developed by Nokia and standardized by 3GPP. Unlike standard phone audio, it supports a wider frequency range (50 Hz–7 kHz), making voice recordings sound clearer. It is often used for:
The Problem: While efficient for speech, .awb files are rarely supported by default media players (like Windows Media Player or QuickTime) and cannot be uploaded to social media or podcast platforms.
The Solution: For general listening or sharing, convert these files to MP3 or AAC.
In gaming, .awb stands for Audio Wave Bank. It is a proprietary archive format from CRI Middleware (CRIWARE) used to package music, voice lines, and sound effects in popular titles like Persona 5, Yakuza, and Sonic.
The Problem: These are not simple audio files but containers (specifically AFS2 archives) that hold multiple audio streams (often HCA or ADX format) inside a single file. You cannot simply "play" them without extracting the contents first. They are often accompanied by a acb control file.
The Solution: To access the music inside, the archive must be processed to extract and convert the internal streams into WAV or MP3.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your AWB file.
Users also converted ACB, MP3, AMR, AWB_TEMP, AAC, WAV, AWD, PDF, ABW, HCA, ZIP, AVB and AWP files.
If you want to convert AWB file to MP3, WAV, PDF, JPG, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, AIFF, OPUS or ALAC, you can use VLC media player or similar software from the "HD Voice Recording / Game Audio" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MIDI, AAC, TTA, AU, WV, DTS, MID, FLAC, RA, MP3, PCM or WAV files to AWB, try VLC media player or another comparable tool in the "HD Voice Recording / Game Audio" category.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our AWB converter.