Free software to convert mp3 to wav audio ?

@badcrc

@teots

People paying over 1,000 EUR for cables must be totally bonkers or on benefits.

There's no way anybody who has the slightest inkling of Audio quality would even think of spending that amount of money especially their own hard earned dosh on those things -- even the brand new amazing Samsung phones (Ultra 21 5G and the new folding models) don't cost that much !!!.

You still can't beat the old professional quality Minidisc recorders (the old Pro ones didn't have the DRM restrictions) -- Sony could have wiped the floor with the minidisc format but because of the stupid DRM and ATRAC proprietary system it never took off like CD's -- but a small 1 GB minidisc could contain in better quality more music than around 8 - 10 CD's at full quality !!!

I have to use an XP VM these days to copy / create new Minidisc recordings but the system works brilliantly. I still often use a small portable battery Minidisc player on travels -- easier than phones and still has a headphone output --increasingly modern mobile phones only have blu tooth connections -- not the best quality for music although of course convenient for wireless headphones,



Cheers

jimbo

teots said:

Conversion from mp3 to wav format sound less compress and decent quality with good source with my setup. Of course it will never sound like a CD. BTW, games on disc or digital download purchase also come in compress format and un compress when
installing, any difference ?

Data compression and audio compression are 2 different things.

HeM said:

"muffled and bright" Are you sure about meanings?

Yes, I am.

I like theory but I think, in some cases, confuses...

To me, personally, it's not a theory. Rather, it's more like an observation and a bit of common sense being applied to that (i.e., in a very pragmatist kind of way).

If you really want clear and neutral sound, trust your ears, not your feeling.

When it comes to listening to and being able to enjoy listening to music, ears and feelings are logically interlinked. Cut off your feelings, and music is transformend to nothing more than just sound waves, which, for reasons that should be completely obvious, is PRECISELY what I'm trying to avoid.

And really, I don't want to speak about psychoacoustics and also, why many studios in the world prefer Benchmark.

The science of psychoacoustics is about how the human hearing system factually works. A moment ago you were saying I should trust my ears. Now, you're saying you don't want to speak about how they work. That's odd, isn't it?
As for why many studios prefer to work with certain types of brands. It's an industry so logically you can expect those companies to have a different goal, like, for example, monetize perceived quality through marketing beliefs as opposed to produce a higher quality product─take the loudness wars as one example of what this factually means.

HeM said:

@hdmi

The whole issue started with your statement about "clear and neutral" sound.
I have my opinion for that, which is that sound is just a sound and you have yours, which as I later saw, is that sound is a sound with a feeling. That's all.

I don't know about you, but the reason why I bought my DAC anyway in the first place was to be able to listen to sound with a feeling aka music. The term "detail" is referring to being able to discern subtleties in musical recordings that would otherwise go undetected, e.g., when you upgrade to a better system, suddenly you are able to hear that there's not one, but two guitars softly playing in the background. Neutral sound means that neither the top end nor the bottom end of the frequency response, or spectrum is getting exaggerated or emphasized. Bright sound is generally associated with a tipped-up top end (i.e., exaggerated treble). I have no idea what could be confusing about this, aside from the common observation that untrained ears have a pretty strong tendency to misinterpret brightness as detail.

This is an 'ancient' dispute between listeners and we are not going to resolve it here or anywhere. On the other hand, that's not a reason for us to be rude (deleted posts). We can discuss everything calmly and politely even if we do know the 'one and only truth'.

Rudeness is a subjective term. If people are easily offended after someone merely points out that brightness sells as a direct result from it being very often misinterpreted by untrained ears as actual detail, then maybe it just means that these people are too jumpy or they have a financial stake in something that's related somehow to the marketing (maybe also including false marketing?) that typically tries to keep revolving around these kinds of persistent misinterpretations.

As for the studios, I think your opinion degrades/underestimates the skills/knowledge of experts who work there. For sure, they don't follow marketing and advertising. Besides, "loudness war" needs absolutely reliable sound systems.

Absolutely not! It takes to be a highly skilled person to be able to continue to successfully hide things like the difference between brightness and actual detail. Case in point, one of Steve Jobs' great astonishing accomplishments was to sell mp3 whilst listening to vinyl records at home so he was a true genius alright, and, you can do a quick online search to verify that I am being utterly serious about this. There's also no doubt in my mind that some people honestly prefer "the sizzle" of mp3 in spite of the fact that, personally, I, don't prefer mp3 sound in any way at all, and also in spite of the fact that "rude vs polite" isn't a part of the reason why I don't.

Format Factory 5

This program, Format Factory, is a well-known and very famous video converter. It supports converting all popular video, audio, picture formats to others. Further, it is not only a converter because it can repair damaged video and audio files.
Besides that, it can help you reduce the size of the file to save disk space and easy to save and backup. Moreover, it can RIP DVDs too, and it supports iPhone,iPod multimedia file formats.
Provides functions below

• All to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF
• All to MP3/WMA/AMR/OGG/AAC/WAV
• All to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/GIF/TGA
• Rip DVD to video file,Rip Music CD to audio file
• MP4 files support iPod/iPhone/PSP/BlackBerry format
• Supports RMVB,Watermark,AV Mux

Features of Format Factory 5

• Support converting all popular video,audio,picture formats to others.
• Repair damaged video and audio file.
• Can help you reduce the size of the file
• Support iphone,ipod multimedia file formats.
• Picture converting supports Zoom,Rotate/Flip,tags.
• DVD Ripper.
• Multi language support

System Requirements and Technical Details

• Supported OS: Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7
• RAM (Memory): 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
• Free Hard Disk Space: 200 MB or more
  
  Format Factory - Free media file format processing tools

HI Everyone,

I was setting up the custom Windows 95 Startup Sound on my Windows computer and used this 3rd party site to convert mp3 to wave.

It was one of the first results in Bing and it is free :)

MP3 to WAV Converter online - FreeConvert.com

HeM said:

Deletion of your previous post shows how 'subjective' rudeness is.
I think you cannot or you don't want to understand what you read (and what you write, as for the absolutely interdependent terms 'brightness and detail') and you continue to be rude.

End of discussion.-

When I was still active on Eightforums, many forum posts got deleted due to server problems. To date, I have not received a notification from a moderator saying the reason for deletion was rudeness. I think I understand perfectly what I read and what I write. You being so easily offended by it says more about you than it says about DACs or how DACs can be affected both by electric noise and by electromagnetic interference both of which are known to originate from various PC hardware components. Hydrogenaud.io forum is choc full of people who think that anyone who hears differences is delusional or rude or the combination of both delusional and rude. As for "End of discussion"... I should certainly hope so.

re : sound quality -

Many, many years ago me and my mates used to trade live bootleg recordings of musicians whose stage performances were 100X better than the boring 2 minutes track versions on LPs. Bands like Hendrix, Grateful Dead who jammed out their tunes into long freeform excursions into the unknown.

These bootlegs usually started out as a fan in the audience with a cassette recorder, and would be copied and copied down the chain until when the C90 reached me the signal to noise ratio was zilch.

Even so, we treasured these bootlegs as if they were gold dust. The audio processing power of the human brain would let me extract the guitar nuances of Jerry Garcia from all the mush on tape.

Interestingly, the Dead knew about the bootlegs and would often allow a fan to plug into the mixing desk at a gig to get a decent copy.

Then one day there was Napster...