WAV Compressor Mac/Windows - How to Compress WAV Files?

How to Reduce WAV Files Size to Save Computer Hard Disk or CD Space with High Output Quality?

Apr 30, 2015, Posted by Andrew Smith

Why Compress WAV Files?

Here we list three typical examples in order to better understand why people want to compress WAV files:

I am required by a distance education language course to record some audio and submit it. However, they are being absolutely unreasonable. I am only allowed to attach a file that is 5mb while my recording is 17mb. I have to compress the WAV file but don't want to lose much quality.

I want to use WAV format and then get more than 15 songs to a CD. Anyway to compress WAV files without loss their quality?

Is there any way I can compress these wav files so as not to lose too much audio quality but also regain a fair bit of valuable disk space?

Reason: people want to submit or upload WAV files to special website which has limitation on the size of file being uploaded, or save space such as computer hard disk, CD, and players and so on, or some other special reasons.

No matter the reasons, people who would like to compress WAV audio all have one thing in common - care about the output quality.

In order to compress WAV files as well as keep high output quality, we recommend Faasoft WAV Compressor to you.

WAV Compressor Mac and Windows

  • Compress WAV files with Least Quality Loss to reduce WAV files size;
  • Compress MP3, WMA, M4A, FLAC, AIFF, CAF, VOC, etc to reduce their size;
  • Other edit features like trim, adjust volume, change channel, adjust bitrate/sample rate, split, merge, etc;
  • Convert any audio or video to audio such as MP3, WAV, AIFF, FLAC, M4A, AAC, AC3, DTS, CAF, MP2, AU, and OGA and so on;
  • Compatible with Mac (Yosemite included) and Windows (Windows 10 included).
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How to Compress WAV Files?

First download and install Faasoft WAV Compressor and run it. Add WAV file to the program by dragging and dropping. This powerful WAV Compressor offers three methods to compress WAV files.

Method one Decrease Sample Size or Sample Rate
Click "Setting..." > "Advanced" > "Audio Codec" and in this section, lower the parameter of "Sample Rate" to compress WAV files. Or decrease sample size to 8 bits by changing Audio Codec to pcm_u8.

Note: Do not lower too much, otherwise the quality will lose.

Method two Compress WAV to other audio format
In this method, you can compress WAV to lossless compressed audio formats like FLAC, Apple Lossless (filename extension m4a), etc or compress WAV to lossy compressed audio formats such as MP2, MP3, OGG Vorbis, AAC, AC3, and DTS and so on.

How: Click "Profile" drop-down button of WAV Compressor to choose the listed formats from "General Audio" or "Lossless Audio" category.

Many formats also support adjust Sample Size and Sample Rate like in Method One. If you convert WAV to lossy format, you can set Bitrate in Advanced Settings to get different compression rate and quality.

Conclusion

WAV is such common and popular audio format so many people have a lot in hand. Meanwhile, it is uncompressed so that it has a large size than compressed audio files and takes up more space. To wriggle out of the awkward situation, the best solution is using Faasoft WAV Compressor to compress WAV files.