audio convertors?

is it possible to convert MP3 files to WAV files in Windows Media Player? or do i have to use another program?

and which format is able to make the file size small? like below 1 Mb?

MPEG Audio Layer-3 (the long name for MP3) is the format.

You can adjust the compression settings. Variable bit rate, joint stereo (or mono), and filtering sounds below 10Hz all save space without affected the perceived quality of the sounds.

Keep in mind that MP3 is a lossless audio compression scheme. The encoding process discards some sound information that is deemed as less important - signal degradation will occur.

Common bit rates used when encoding are 192, 160, 128, and 96 Kb/s. 128 is considered to be near-CD quality and produces 11:1 compression. Voice only audio may still sound acceptable at 96Kb/s (15:1) and lower; you will have to experiment.

Whoops, I read your post backwards.

Ok... in regards to your question, "which format is able to make the file size small? like below 1 Mb?". WAV is, once again, the format (in this case, PCM). You can, however, adjust some parameters.

If you wish to record the WAV to CD-DA (CD Digital Audio), then it must be 16 bits by 44.1KHz. Otherwise, you can mess with the number of bits and the sampling frequency.

PCM does not discard data using a perceptual model (such as MP3). Reduced bit resolution and sampling frequency will dramatically effect quality.

Lastly, WAV files are ten or more times larger than MP3. Your request to get a WAV file under 1MB may be difficult or impossible (if your original MP3 is a few hundred KB).

Cheers

P.S. Mb is megabit, MB is megabyte. Its a good habbit to use the correct abbreviation.

You can with Nero Wave Editor (available with Nero cd burning software)

http://www.download.com is also good for progs which do that.

then how can i saw some full length songs in WAV format and below 1Mb?

rj is right - you cant get it smaller without compromising the quality.

i don't mind comprising quality. to me, as long as there is music, i'm happy. any tips on how to make the WAV file small? some websites will do.

any way to make it smaller than 1MB?

I just tested it on Nero Wave Editor - I put all the settings on the lowest possible quality and it still came out nearly 10x bigger than the original.

I do know what you mean though. Ive seen around .wav song files that were not too huge but I can't help you with how they did it.

Have you tried Google?

Because somebody created a .mp3, renamed it to .wav and when they loaded it up into Media Player or WinAMP, it automatically figured out that it needed an MP3 codec to play it

ok. i will try google

I only say that ive seen those because I remember a few years back when I was a regular at a chat place called Virtual Places and they had a heap of webpages that had drop down lists with song u could play and they had pretty good sound quality and didnt take ages to load (i was on modem at the time). Like I said not sure how though search google for things like .wav file compression etc.

There are a lot of free progs out there to convert them, you just need to find out what compression you need to get it small.

oh yeah that could be how they did it actually - because it played through a media player imbedded into the webpage...