MP3 MPEG Audio Layer III
The most compatible audio format: every phone, car stereo, speaker and app plays it. MP3 makes small files by discarding sound you're unlikely to hear, so it suits listening, not editing.
Audio · Windows 10 and 11
Some audio editors, DJ software, samplers and CD burning tools want WAV. Converting gives them an uncompressed file they can work with directly.
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The most compatible audio format: every phone, car stereo, speaker and app plays it. MP3 makes small files by discarding sound you're unlikely to hear, so it suits listening, not editing.
Uncompressed sound, exactly as recorded: about 10 MB per minute at CD quality. Recorders, audio editors and DJ software like it; for sharing or storing it is very large.
Questions
No. It sounds exactly the same. Converting can't restore what MP3 compression removed; it just stores the sound uncompressed.
WAV isn't compressed, so it takes about 10 MB per minute, around seven times the MP3.
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