Upload a WMA file and get a FLAC back. No signup, no watermark, no limit on how many.
WMA is Microsoft's lossy format from the Windows Media era, and it is the reason a great many CD collections ripped between 2000 and 2010 are now awkward to play.
Where you run into it: Old Windows Media Player rips, corporate archives, CDs backed up on a PC two laptops ago.
What it costs you: Support outside Windows ranges from poor to none: phones, Macs and car stereos mostly will not open it, which is why it is nearly always a source and never a destination.
FLAC compresses losslessly: it typically halves a WAV and gives back bit-for-bit the same audio when decoded. It is free, open, and widely supported outside Apple's world.
Where you run into it: Archived rips, Bandcamp and Qobuz downloads, anyone who keeps a music library they intend to still have in ten years.
What it costs you: Half of enormous is still large, and some hardware — car head units especially — will not touch it.
Worth being clear about: converting WMA to FLAC does not restore anything. What WMA threw away is gone, and wrapping the result in a lossless format simply preserves the damaged version perfectly. The file will get several times larger for no gain in sound. Do it when a tool or a workflow demands FLAC input — many editors and DAWs do — and not in the hope of better audio.
Yes, entirely, and there is no cap on how many files you convert. No account, no watermark, no trial.
It does not lose anything further, but it does not recover anything either. FLAC will store your WMA audio perfectly, damage and all. Converting this way for sound quality is the single most common misunderstanding about audio formats.
Considerably larger — usually five to ten times the WMA. A lossless format stores every sample, and it has no way of knowing that some of them were reconstructed from a lossy file.
Not here. WMA can be read but not written by this converter — ffmpeg decodes it happily, and encoding back to it would mean a format almost nothing plays. If you need the original WMA, keep it rather than recreating it.
The file is uploaded to do the conversion — nothing here runs in your browser — and both your upload and the converted result are deleted the moment the file is sent back. Nothing is stored and nothing is logged beyond the request itself.