Windows Media Audio: conversion steps
- Upload your Windows Media Audio file to start.
- Convert Windows Media Audio to AAC.
- Download the Windows Media Audio file.
About Windows Media Audio files
Microsoft's Windows Media audio format
Windows Media Audio (WMA) is Microsoft's family of audio codecs, stored in the ASF container, with lossy, lossless and voice variants.
Music bought or ripped with Windows Media Player in the 2000s.
Windows Media Audio: what conversion changes
Converting Windows Media Audio re-encodes audio.
Windows Media Audio: settings to change
Before you convert Windows Media Audio files, you can adjust: Audio codec, Rate control, Audio bitrate, Quality (VBR), Sample rate, Channels, Normalize loudness, Trim start, Trim duration, and Keep tags.
Limits of the Windows Media Audio format
WMA files can carry DRM, and many devices outside Windows do not play WMA.
Common questions about Windows Media Audio
Why does my Android phone refuse to play WMA files? Windows Media Audio never left the Microsoft world, so players elsewhere either skip it or need a conversion to a universal format.