Step 1: Drop your WAV files using the button above or by deposit and leave.
Step 2: Click the 'Convert' button to start the conversion.
Step 3: Receive your converted WMA files.
WAV to WMA Conversion FAQ
How do I convert WAV audio to WMA without quality loss?
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Upload the WAV file and our converter chooses the WMA codec / bitrate combination that matches the source. Lossless target (WMA = WAV / FLAC / ALAC) preserves every sample; lossy target (WMA = MP3 / AAC / OGG) defaults to 192 kbps which is transparent for spoken-word audiobooks and most music.
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 a very large WAV file upload successfully?
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Free accounts cap at 100 MB per file, and WAV sources run large because the format carries substantial per-chunk overhead on top of the video data. Premium lifts the cap considerably. If the file is split into numbered parts because of the format ceiling, upload them together and they are treated as one job. WAV is enormous — roughly 10 MB per stereo minute at CD quality — and the classic format has a 4 GB ceiling and no room for proper tags.
What bitrate does the WMA file use?
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Default is 192 kbps for lossy WMA; pass-through for lossless WMA. Override to 320 kbps for audiophile or 64-96 kbps for spoken-word audiobooks (transparent for voice, halves the file size).
Will going from WAV to WMA reduce my audio quality?
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If WAV is lossy and WMA is lossless (e.g. MP3 → WAV), the WMA file is no better than the WAV — you can't recover information that's already been thrown away. If WAV is lossless and WMA is lossy, expect the WMA codec to recompress; at 192 kbps this is transparent for most content.
Does the WAV to WMA converter keep ID3 / metadata tags?
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Yes — title, artist, album, year, track number, album art, and chapter markers (important for audiobooks) are read from WAV and written into the WMA container where the WMA format supports tags. M4B audiobook structure round-trips into M4B and AAX → M4B output.
Can I batch convert hundreds of WAV files to WMA?
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Yes — drop a folder of WAV files in and we process them in parallel. Premium has more parallel workers and no per-file size cap, so a 500-file batch finishes in minutes rather than tens of minutes.
Will the WMA keep the same sample rate as WAV?
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By default yes (48 kHz WAV → 48 kHz WMA). If you need to downsample for compatibility (e.g. 96 kHz → 44.1 kHz for CD burning) the advanced sample-rate option does this with high-quality resampling.
Can I normalize loudness in the WAV to WMA step?
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Yes — the loudness-normalize option applies ITU-R BS.1770 / EBU R128 normalization to the WMA output, targeting -14 LUFS (streaming standard), -16 LUFS (podcast standard), or -23 LUFS (audiobook standard). Useful when batch-converting tracks with varying mastering levels.
Will the WMA play on my car stereo / iPod / audiobook app?
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MP3 plays universally. AAC plays on Apple, most Android, Sonos. FLAC plays on Sonos and Android, less well on older iPods. M4B audiobooks play with chapter navigation on iOS Books, Audiobookshelf, and Smart Audiobook Player. The advanced options include device presets.
