WAV to AAC - Convert audio online
Conversion Results:
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How to convert WAV to AAC:
1. Click the "Choose Files" button to select multiple files on your computer or click the "URL" button to choose an online file from URL, Google Drive or Dropbox. The source file can also be video format. Video and audio file size can be up to 200M. You can use file analyzer to get source audio's detailed information such as track name, genre, bitrate and sampling rate.
2. Set target audio format, bitrate and sample rate. The target audio format can be WAV, WMA, MP3, OGG, AAC, AU, FLAC, M4A, MKA, AIFF, OPUS or RA.
3. Click the "Convert Now!" button to start batch conversion. It will automatically retry conversion on another server if one fails, please be patient while converting. The output files will be listed in the "Conversion Results" section. Click icon to show file QR code or save file to cloud storage services such as Google Drive or Dropbox.
WAV vs AAC:
| Name | WAV | AAC |
| Full name | Waveform Audio File Format | Advanced Audio Coding |
| File extension | .wav .wave | .aac |
| MIME | audio/vnd.wave, audio/wav, audio/wave, audio/x-wav | audio/aac |
| Developed by | Microsoft & IBM | Bell Labs, Fraunhofer Institute etc. |
| Type of format | Audio file format, container format | Audio compression format |
| Introduction | Waveform Audio File Format is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs. It is the main format used on Windows systems for raw and typically uncompressed audio. The usual bitstream encoding is the linear pulse-code modulation (LPCM) format. | Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is an audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at similar bit rates. AAC has been standardized by ISO and IEC, as part of the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 specifications. |
| Technical details | Though a WAV file can contain compressed audio, the most common WAV audio format is uncompressed audio in the linear pulse code modulation (LPCM) format. Audio in WAV files can be encoded in a variety of audio coding formats, such as GSM or MP3, to reduce the file size. | AAC supports inclusion of 48 full-bandwidth audio channels in one stream plus 16 low frequency effects channels, up to 16 "coupling" or dialog channels, and up to 16 data streams. The quality for stereo is satisfactory to modest requirements at 96 kbit/s in joint stereo mode; however, hi-fi transparency demands data rates of at least 128 kbit/s. |
| Associated programs | ALLPlayer, VLC media player, Media Player Classic, MPlayer, RealPlayer, Winamp. | foobar2000, AIMP, DirectShow, QuickTime, VLC media player. |
| Sample file | sample.wav | sample.aac |
| Wikipedia | WAV on Wikipedia | AAC on Wikipedia |