Convert WAV to MP3

About WAV and MP3

WAV is uncompressed PCM audio — the raw samples with a small header. It is the standard interchange format for recording, sampling and production work, at the cost of roughly 10 MB per minute of stereo.

MP3 is the most widely supported audio format there is — every browser, player, car stereo and podcast app reads it. It is lossy, so quality is traded for file size, but at 192 kbps and up most listeners cannot tell.

Converting WAV to MP3 is lossy. 192 kbps is transparent for most listeners on most material; pick 320 kbps for the ceiling, or drop lower when small files matter more than fidelity.

How the conversion works

This tool runs FFmpeg — the same engine behind most media software — compiled to WebAssembly, entirely in the browser. The file is read locally, converted locally and saved straight from memory; nothing is ever uploaded, which also means no queues and no server-side file size limits.

The converter itself is a one-time ~31 MB download on the first conversion, cached by the browser afterwards. Once it is loaded, everything works offline.