WMV to MP3 converter
Extract audio from a WMV file as MP3, in your browser. Works on the Windows Media recordings that modern software refuses to open.
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Accepts .wmv · Up to 20 files at a time · up to 2.0 GB each "Upload" and "download" here mean your browser reading a file from this device and writing one back to it. Nothing is sent to a server — open your browser's network panel and watch: no request carries your file.
FAQ
Why will nothing play my WMV?
Because Windows Media codecs were never adopted outside Microsoft's ecosystem, and support has been removed from most modern software. The file is not broken; the world moved on.
My conversion failed — why?
The most likely reason is DRM. Files bought from old Windows Media stores are encrypted, and nothing that respects that encryption can decode them. Recordings you made yourself convert normally.
Will the audio quality drop?
Slightly. WMA is lossy, so re-encoding to MP3 is a second pass. For the speech and training material most WMV archives hold, it is not noticeable at the default bitrate.
What bitrate should I use?
128 kbps for speech, which most WMV content is. Go higher only if the source was genuinely high-quality music, which for this format is uncommon.
Is this faster than converting the video?
Much. The video is discarded rather than decoded, so a long recording gives up its audio in well under a minute.
Is the file uploaded?
No. It is processed in this page, which matters for the corporate and personal archives that WMV files usually are.
Is it really free?
Yes — every conversion on this site, with no account, no watermark and no daily cap. The work happens on your own device, so there is no server bill for us to pass on to you.
Do I need to install anything?
No. It runs in any modern browser, on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. There is nothing to download and nothing to sign up for, and once the page has loaded it keeps working with the network switched off.
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