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You can convert WMV to WAV for free: upload your WMV above and Flippy extracts the audio as WAV in your browser, no signup needed.
Turning WMV into WAV isn't really a conversion: it's an extraction: Flippy lifts the audio track out of your WMV and re-packs it on its own. You keep the sound and drop the pixels, swapping a WMV that runs small for its era, but modern codecs beat it on both size and quality for a WAV built for recording, editing and mastering, where every last bit matters.
WMV is a time capsule from the Windows XP years: tidy little files with dated manners. It was born in 1999, Microsoft, and its real weak spot is everything Apple, most browsers, and any phone made this decade.
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 WMV 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.
| WMV | WAV | |
|---|---|---|
| Born | 1999, Microsoft | 1991, Microsoft and IBM |
| Type | video · container | audio · uncompressed |
| Best for | old Windows archives and PowerPoint decks that still insist on it | recording, editing and mastering, where every last bit matters |
| Weak spot | everything Apple, most browsers, and any phone made this decade | being carried around: it refuses to shrink |
| Typical size | small for its era, but modern codecs beat it on both size and quality | about 10 MB per minute at CD quality: ten times the size of an MP3 |
| Plays on | Windows out of the box; everywhere else wants VLC or a converter. | Universal on desktops and pro audio gear; clumsy on the mobile web. |
No: extraction copies the audio that's already in the WMV. Whatever the soundtrack sounded like inside the video, that's what your WAV will sound like.
Much smaller: you're keeping the audio and dropping the video, which is most of the weight. Expect about 10 MB per minute at CD quality: ten times the size of an MP3.
Universal on desktops and pro audio gear; clumsy on the mobile web. That's the usual reason people leave WMV behind: WAV simply opens in more of the places that matter.
It scales with length and resolution: short clips finish in seconds, long HD videos can take a few minutes. Files auto-delete within an hour after.