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WMA to WAV Converter

Turn WMA files into WAV in a couple of clicks. Microsoft's legacy audio format. Uncompressed PCM audio. Perfect quality, big files. The conversion is lossless — every pixel, sample or byte in the source is preserved.

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WMA files (.wma) · up to 300 MB each

or paste files from your clipboard

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Drop a WMA file above and FileTools360 will turn it into WAV — right here on your device, without uploading anything.

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How to use it

  1. 1

    Add your WMA files

    Drag them onto the upload area, choose them from your device, or paste them from your clipboard. You can queue several at once.

  2. 2

    Adjust the settings if you want to

    The defaults suit most people. Open Advanced to control bitrate, sample rate and channels and start and end times.

  3. 3

    Convert and download

    Press Convert. Everything happens on your own device — nothing is uploaded. Download files one by one, or grab them all as a ZIP.

WMA and WAV explained

WMA is Microsoft's audio format from the Windows Media era. It is functionally obsolete and some older files carry DRM that prevents conversion.

WAV stores uncompressed PCM audio — the raw samples, exactly as captured. A stereo CD-quality minute is roughly 10 MB, which is the price of having no compression whatsoever.

Where WMA files come from
Music ripped on Windows in the 2000s.
Where WAV is used
Recording sessions, sample libraries and audio editing.

WMA vs WAV

The two formats solve different problems, which is why converting between them involves trade-offs rather than a straight upgrade.

WMA compared with WAV
PropertySourceTarget
CompressionLossyUncompressed
Introduced19991991
Browser supportWindows only. Convert for anything else.Universal.
WMA is stronger at
Reasonable quality for its time.
WAV is stronger at
Perfect fidelity with zero compression artefacts. No decoding overhead, so editors scrub instantly. Universally supported.

Why convert WMA to WAV?

People make this switch when they run into the limits of WMA: always — convert to MP3 to keep the audio usable. WAV is the better fit when recording, editing, mastering, or handing audio to another tool.

Be aware of the size trade-off: WAV is uncompressed, so expect the converted file to be considerably larger than the WMA you started with.

WMA limitations that prompt the switch
Windows-only in practice. No browser or mobile support worth relying on. DRM-protected files cannot be converted at all.
What you give up
Very large files. No standard metadata support worth relying on.

Does converting WMA to WAV reduce quality?

Going from WMA to WAV moves already-compressed data into a format that stores it exactly. Nothing is lost from this point on, but nothing is recovered either — the detail WMA discarded when the file was first created is gone permanently. Expect a noticeably larger file for identical visual quality.

About these formats

Source

Windows Media Audio

Microsoft's legacy audio format.

Extensions
.wma
MIME type
audio/x-ms-wma
Best for
Old Windows music libraries
Compatibility
Windows only. Convert for anything else.

Target

Waveform Audio

Uncompressed PCM audio. Perfect quality, big files.

Extensions
.wav, .wave
MIME type
audio/wav
Best for
Editing and mastering · Sound design · Archival
Compatibility
Universal.

The output is a lossless container, but the audio inside it was already compressed. You get a bigger file, not better sound.

Good to know

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