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You can convert WMA to WAV for free above: just know the WAV will sound identical to the WMA, not better; lossless can't restore discarded detail.
Let's be straight with each other: converting WMA to WAV will not bring back detail the WMA encoder already threw away. What you do get is a WAV that behaves like one: built for recording, editing and mastering, where every last bit matters: which is often exactly what an editor, burner or archive pipeline demands instead of a WMA.
Honest warning: a WAV made from WMA is lossless from here on, but it can't restore what the WMA encoder already discarded. It will sound exactly like your WMA: just bigger.
WMA is Windows' old house band: big in the early 2000s, mostly retired now. It was born in 1999, Microsoft, and its real weak spot is the modern world: Apple devices, browsers and most apps have moved on.
WAV is audio with nothing taken away: every sample intact, every megabyte accounted for. Raw PCM samples in a RIFF wrapper. No compression of any kind. That makes it the right destination when what you need is recording, editing and mastering, where every last bit matters.
Drop your WMA file into the flipper above, or click to browse for it.
Check the output format: WAV is already selected for you.
Hit Convert, give it a moment, then download your new WAV.
| WMA | WAV | |
|---|---|---|
| Born | 1999, Microsoft | 1991, Microsoft and IBM |
| Type | audio · lossy | audio · uncompressed |
| Best for | keeping aging Windows Media software and old archives happy | recording, editing and mastering, where every last bit matters |
| Weak spot | the modern world: Apple devices, browsers and most apps have moved on | being carried around: it refuses to shrink |
| Typical size | MP3-ish sizes; the famous 'CD quality at 64 kbps' claim never quite landed | about 10 MB per minute at CD quality: ten times the size of an MP3 |
| Plays on | Windows Media Player and legacy Microsoft software; little else without help. | Universal on desktops and pro audio gear; clumsy on the mobile web. |
It won't lose more, and it won't gain any back. The WAV preserves your WMA exactly as it is now: including whatever the original lossy encode discarded.
Bigger: usually several times bigger. WAV runs about 10 MB per minute at CD quality: ten times the size of an MP3, and none of that extra space adds quality to a WMA source.
Universal on desktops and pro audio gear; clumsy on the mobile web. That's the usual reason people leave WMA behind: WAV simply opens in more of the places that matter.
Seconds for most files: audio is light work. A long recording might take a minute; your file auto-deletes from our servers within an hour either way.