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WAV to MP3 Converter

The waveform or WAV is one of the first audio formats available for the PC. For its time, the WAV provided the best quality for digital sound files, even though the filesize tends to lean on the heavy side due to lack of compression. One of the disadvantages of the WAV file is that they take up a lot of space, and can be taxing on the CPU because of their large size. This is why it is always better to use a WAV to MP3 converter to turn your entire digital sound library into a more manageable mp3 archive.
In order to convert your wav files to the better mp3 format, you will first need a wav to mp3 converter. Fortunately, there are a lot of these converters available on the net, and you may find one that’s within your price range (with prices ranging from free to $50). If you’re really skimpy on the budget, you can even use the Sound player applet included with every windows installation, which can convert wav files to a variety of formats (albeit it does the job badly).
There are a lot of benefits to mp3 compression, but there is still one glaring disadvantage: loss of quality. Compression will always take away a certain amount of quality from the source signal. The system is seesaw-like, which means the more compression you achieve (lower filesize), the lower sound quality you’ll get. You will need to find the sweetspot for your sound files. For most people, a 128k bitrate is enough, providing an estimated 8:1 compression ratio and an average of 25% to 15% loss of quality.

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