Convert audio files (WAV) online for free
The converter easily converts your WAV files to various formats - free and online. No Audacity or or other Audio software needed.
The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other "Waveform Audio File" formats to WAV without using software like Audacity or a similar tool.
WAV (Waveform Audio File Format) is an audio file standard developed jointly by Microsoft and IBM. It primarily stores uncompressed audio data using the Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF) container structure. Professionals use .WAV files for audio editing, mixing, and mastering because the uncompressed Linear Pulse-Code Modulation (LPCM) audio preserves maximum acoustic fidelity. You can open and edit these files with software like Audacity, Adobe Audition, or standard operating system media players. For more details, visit the Wikipedia article on WAV.
Despite the high audio quality, .WAV files have severe disadvantages. Because the data is uncompressed, file sizes are massive. A single minute of CD-quality stereo audio consumes around 10 MB of disk space. High-resolution multi-track recordings easily exceed hundreds of megabytes. This makes .WAV files terrible for web streaming, mobile playback, or email sharing. Furthermore, older standard .WAV formats have a strict 4GB file size limit due to 32-bit header restrictions, which causes long continuous recordings to fail or corrupt instantly upon hitting the limit.
To overcome these storage and bandwidth limits, you must convert the file depending on your goal. For web streaming and sharing via email, convert .WAV to MP3 or AAC to shrink the file size by up to 90%, though this will cause minor, often inaudible quality loss. For archiving final audio masters without losing any acoustic data, convert to FLAC or ALAC, which compress the file size by roughly half while retaining perfect mathematical fidelity. Drag and drop your .WAV file here to analyze and convert it - free, online, and without installing software.
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Users also converted MP3, WEM, ADPCM, DWP, VLC, AT3, XWM, SF2, RTTTL, HCA, ULAW, STY and WAVE files.
If you want to convert WAV file to MIDI, M4A, ALAC or APE, you can use Audacity or similar software from the "Uncompressed Audio Data Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MIDI, MID or RA files to WAV, try Audacity or another comparable tool in the "Uncompressed Audio Data 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 WAV converter.