Conversion of wav audio file to mp3 Waveform Audio File Format WAVE or WAV due to its filename extension; is an audio file format standard, developed by IBM and Microsoft, for storing an audio bitstream on PCs. It is the main format used on Microsoft Windows systems for uncompressed audio. The usual bitstream encoding is the linear pulse-code modulation (LPCM) format. MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, referred to as MP3, is a digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio storage, as well as a de facto standard encoding for the transfer and playback of music on digital audio players. MP3 is an audio-specific format that was designed by the Moving Picture Experts Group. It was approved as an ISO/IEC standard in 1991. Link for code to convert audio file: https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/20084/convertingaudio-to-different-file-formats