Mac & PC Computer Tips : How to Convert MP3 to WAV

Converting MP3 files to WAV files is different on an Apple Mac as compared to a PC running Windows. Learn how to convert MP3 files to WAV files on computer with tips from an experienced computer user in this free video on computers.

Expert: Charles Stewart Jr.
Contact: www.ipsource.tv
Bio: Charles Stewart Jr. has been working with both Windows-based and Mac-based computers for more than 10 years.
Filmmaker: Reel Media LLC

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With all the different music players and compatibility
issues people run into nowadays, I'm going
to show you how to take an MP3 and transfer
it to a WAV file. Hi, I'm Charles Stewart
Jr, and let's get started. For the sake of
this I'm going to use iTunes since iTunes
and iPods are pretty much dominating the market
right now. iTunes is great 'cause it's free,
and it does a lot of the work for you so it
makes it real simple. I've loaded in my music
track which is an MP3, and you want to tell
iTunes how to transfer, you know what you
want to transcode it for you. So you go to
edit on the Windows, it'll be a little different
on a Mac, and you go to preferences. And when
you get preferences up you want to go to the
advanced tab, and then now you're going to
choose, it's import and then you choose the
importing tab. And then you want to choose
which, you know, format you want to transcode
into. So obviously we want to transcode into
a WAV, so we choose the WAV encoder and then
we hit okay. All right now I'm going to my
highlight my file, and I'm going to right
click on it, and then I'm going to down to
convert selection to WAV. Now see by doing
that, I've told iTunes that this is the default
action, so if I were to leave it to something
else, that would say convert selection to
whatever else I chose. So, we want it to be
a WAV, and then we click on it. And then up
in the menu bar, it'll automatically start
to play, but also it'll tell you what's going
on with the encoding. Okay once it's done
it'll create a file for you, and you highlight
it, right click, and then hit get info, and
it should tell you now what kind of file it
is. It shows we've created a WAV file, and
that's the size, thirty-nine megabytes. And,
that's how to convert an MPEG-three file into
a WAV file.