As a supplier of royalty free music files (www.royalty-free.tv) we’re often asked what’s the simplest way to convert audio files from one format to another.  For example you may have bought a tune online in MP3  and you want to edit it, but your editing software needs the file to be in a WAV format.  It’s easy to convert them using freely available software, here are our favourite 2 software packages to use:

1 – iTunes:  available as a free download for Mac and PC, will convert one of your music tracks (or even several) to any of the following formats – MP3, AAC, AIFF, WAV.  Here’s how -  if you’re using a Mac select iTunes menu>Preferences, or if  using Windows select Edit menu>Preferences.   Now click the Advanced button, then the Importing button at the top of the window.  On the Import Using pop-up menu, choose the encoding format that you want to convert the song to, then click OK to save the settings. Select one or more songs in your library, select Advanced menu, choose the audio format you want to convert your music file into.  iTunes is availble free from http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

2 – Audacity:  free audio editing software, that’s also really useful for converting audio files from one format to another. It supports WAV, AIFF, MP3 and OGG VORBIS formats, and it’s really as simple as loading the file you want, then selecting the menu File>export as, choosing either WAV, AIFF, OGG or MP3 to save and convert the file into. You can additionally select the quality of each of these audio file formats by selecting “file formats” from the preference menu.  Using this you can increase or decrease the quality and size of your new format music file, if you choose to.  Audacity is available free to download at  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/