WMA to WAV using FFmpeg

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  • Used sample.wma from http://www.nch.com.au/acm/formats.html
  • Used the following command to convert the file: ffmpeg -i sample.wma sample.wav
  • Most of the metadata in this table are taken from the FFmpeg metadata that were generated during conversion.


Property Original Normalized
Codec Windows Media Audio 9.1 PCM
Size 29,263 393,260
Duration 4.36 s 4.36 s
Channels 2 2
Channel mapping
SampleRate 22050 22050
BitDepth 16 16