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Franky12345678
2 years ago

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.)

Franky12345678
2 years ago

Better than MP3

StefanAumueller
2 years ago

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.

najadann
2 years ago

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.

Mixedwrestler
2 years ago

Unique WAV🙂

Lg

SpionUnterUns
2 years ago

Definitely.