Is Apple Music good for converting .m4a to .wav format?

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Is Apple Music good for converting .m4a to .wav format?

Is apple music good for converting m4a to wav

1/2 Is apple music good for converting m4a to wav?

2/2 Or is it better to just change audio file extension to .m4a to .wav?

Is there any loss of quality in one of the methods? Should I just keep changing audio file extension or convert audio file with apple music?

For some reason I feel like changing file extensions sounds better than converting it in apple music?

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Posted on May 14, 2025 05:10 PM

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ed2345

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May 14, 2025 06:15 PM in response to eddievalentin007

Eddie,

In that case you can use the Music app to convert the .m4a files to WAV. The WAV file will be noticeably larger but will have the same audio quality. See procedure in here:

Convert a song to a different file format with the Apple Music app or iTunes for Windows – Apple Support (UK)

Per your question 2, changing the file extension does not convert the audio contents of the file.

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ed2345

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May 15, 2025 04:41 AM in response to eddievalentin007

Yes. If you only change the file extension, you have a file with AAC audio encoding and a .wav extension. That is not a WAV-encoded file, and will probably cause your editor to choke.

If you convert in Music by the procedure that I linked, you will end up with the original file (.m4a in your case) intact, and a new file (.wav in your case) added to the library. Grab the WAV file to use in the editor.

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