Re: Converting from MP3 to Wav: Does the Sound Quality Suffer?

malja316 wrote:
Hello all! I was wondering if converting from MP3 to a Wav file hurts
the overall audio quality. I am downloading music off the net and
unfortunately they are mp3 files. I was hoping that if I converted to
wav that it would actually help the sound quality? 

Any help on this is greatly appreciated! Thanks for Reading!


You are converting from a lossy format to a non-lossy one. The non-lossy file, something.wav, will be way larger in file size. Absolutely no improvement in sound will result. You will just have a wav file that sounds just like the MP3 you converted from.

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