Turn WAV audio files into WV. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop WAV files here
or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V
from Photos or Files
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Drop WAV files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. ToAny reads the file's contents to detect the type, so a wrong extension does not matter.
Press Convert. Open Options first if you want to change the defaults. The work happens in this tab.
Save the WV, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The WAV to WV converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your audio files are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so the conversion starts the moment you press Convert, even on a slow connection.
No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.
WAV files are about ten times larger than an MP3 of the same recording. WavPack shrinks audio without losing any of it. WAV is at home in recording, editing and mastering; WV is the usual choice for archiving CDs and recordings without losing anything.
The defaults suit most files. Under Options you can trim the start and end.
This pair uses the compatibility engine, ffmpeg built for the browser, because WV cannot be written by the browser's built-in codecs. It is a one-off download of about 10 MB that the browser keeps, it is slower than the built-in codecs, and it takes files up to 1 GB.
WAV stores audio as raw, uncompressed samples. Nothing is lost, which makes it the standard working format in audio editing, and files run to about 10 MB per minute at CD quality.
Opens in Every computer, audio editor and most phones
WAV converterWavPack is a free lossless audio compressor. It shrinks a recording to roughly half its WAV size while allowing the exact original to be rebuilt, and it also has a hybrid mode that writes a small lossy file plus a correction file.
Opens in foobar2000, VLC and many audio players; few phones
WV converter| WAVWAV audio | WVWavPack audio | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Waveform Audio File Format | WavPack |
| Type | Audio | Audio |
| Compression | None (uncompressed PCM) | Lossless (with an optional lossy hybrid mode) |
| Usually contains | PCM | WavPack |
| Introduced | 1991, by Microsoft and IBM | The late 1990s, by David Bryant |
| Opens in | Every computer, audio editor and most phones | foobar2000, VLC and many audio players; few phones |
| Best for | Recording, editing and mastering | Archiving CDs and recordings without losing anything |
| File extension | .wav, .wave | .wv |
No. The WAV to WV conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
No further quality is lost: WV stores the decoded audio exactly. The result is identical in content.
Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.
The steps are the same everywhere because ToAny runs in the web browser: open this page in a current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, add the WAV file, press Convert and save the WV. There is nothing to install.
Yes. WAV to WV runs on the compatibility engine, which takes files up to 1 GB, and a long clip takes a while because it is slower than the browser's built-in codecs. Beyond that the limit is your device's memory, since nothing is uploaded; a computer copes with large files better than a phone.