Home / Media, entertainment & music / Music & Radio / Music streaming / Which has better audio quality MP3 or WAV? Music streaming Which has better audio quality MP3 or WAV? ByHasteMalNenEuro October 10, 2022February 24, 2025 (1 rating, 1 votes, rated)You need to be a registered member to rate this.Loading...
Can't be answered on a flat-rate basis as you compare apples with pears.
MP3 is an audio format.
WAV (the RIFF WAVE format) is a container for multimedia files. It's not an audio format for itself.
What can you do with such a container? You can take your MP3 and pack them in it.
Then both have approximately the same size and identical quality.
However, it can also store uncompressed PCM in the WAV.
Then the quality is significantly better, but also has a significantly larger file.
Many popular multimedia formats consist of the container (.wav, .avi, .mp4, .ogg, .webm, .vob, .ts, .mkv) and the multimedia streams (pcm, adpcm, mp3, aac, Opus, midi, mpeg4-avc, mpeg2, hevc, vorbis, ffv, mjpeg etc.)
How do you get to the record?
Better than MP3
Theoretically Wave. But there is also a setting for lower bit rate and sample rate, which can sound worse.
At a sample rate of 44.1kHz and a bit rate of 16Bit, definitely Wave.
There is also a rule of thumb: how much the music file the better the quality.
wav takes much more space on the PC than mp3.
Unique WAV🙂
Lg
Definitely.