Convert MP2 files online for free
The converter easily converts your MP2 file to various formats - free and online. No VLC media player or or other Audio software needed.
The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other "Lossy Audio Compression" formats to MP2 without using software like VLC media player or a similar tool.
A .MP2 file is an audio track encoded using the MPEG-1 Audio Layer II compression standard. While it is the direct predecessor to the ubiquitous MP3, it remains a standard in professional environments, specifically for digital audio broadcasting (DAB) and within digital video streams (like DVDs and VCDs).
For the average user, however, .MP2 presents significant friction. It is rarely supported natively by modern web browsers, smartphones, or default media players (like Windows Media Player), requiring third-party software like VLC media player to open. Furthermore, .MP2 files are less efficient than modern codecs, resulting in larger file sizes for comparable audio quality. To ensure your audio is playable on all devices, the best approach is to convert .MP2 to MP3 or AAC for general listening and web sharing. If you intend to edit the audio in software like Audacity or Adobe Audition, you should convert it to WAV to prevent further quality loss during the editing process.
*Note: In very rare cases (less than 1%), a .mp2 file may be a game map file for 'Heroes of Might and Magic II' by New World Computing.*
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your MP2 file.
Users also converted MP1, M2P, M4A, JPG, MP3, FLAC, UYVY, MJPEG, MP4, GIF, MIDI, OGG and WAV files.
If you want to convert MP2 file to MIDI or M4A, you can use VLC media player or similar software from the "Broadcast Audio Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MIDI, MID or RA files to MP2, try VLC media player or another comparable tool in the "Broadcast Audio Storage" 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 MP2 converter.