How to convert WMA to ALAC? Try the Audio Transcoder!

Key features of the best WMA-to-ALAC Converter:

Lightning-fast conversion (multi-core optimized encoders to speed up conversions on modern PCs.)
Batch mode for multiple files conversion task, Audio Transcoder can convert thousands of WMA files at once.
Supports most widely used popular input and output formats.
Supports drag & drop.
Full Unicode support for tags and file names.
Integrated CD ripper with CDDB/freedb title database support.
Supports conversion without any temporary files it brings you high converting speed and saves hard disk resource.
Easy to learn and use, still offers expert options when you need them.
Creates output folders according to source files directory tree automatically.
It can add ID3 tag such as title, artist, album, year, genre, and comment to target file when converting files to AAC/MP3/OGG/WAV/APE/AIFF/M4A/M4B.
Fairly intuitive to use with its Windows Explorer-Style user interface.

Do you have some .wma files that you want to convert to ALAC so you can listen to them on your phone? Fortunately for you, we’ve put together a simple guide for converting WMA into ALAC. Audio Transcoder offers you an easy and fast way to convert any audio files to ALAC with high quality. It is an advanced Music Converter and CD Ripper with support of various popular media formats and encoders.

Free download and follow the instructions below

Steps on how to convert WMA to ALAC:

1. Add the media files to convert.

The first step is to select media files to convert. Run Audio Transcoder and use Folder Explorer to browse files you want to convert. Then select a file in the File List, drag it to the Drop Zone and drop it there. Optionally, Audio Converter allows you to edit tags of any selected file in Drop Zone.

Once files are selected, the next step is to select the output settings in Converter.

2. Select the output settings.

The second step is to select an output settings. To begin, select a folder for output and choose an action to be executed if an output file already exists (create a new file, overwrite or skip existing file).

Also you can set Media Converter to delete source file after conversion and preserve original folder structure, when doing batch conversion. Finally, you should select the output format and sound quality. In ALAC dialog box, choose format settings for the final tracks. Depending on quality you need, select bitrate, sample rate and the number of channels. You will probably lose some audio content if you choose mono option. You can choose what sample rate you want to use. 44.1 kHz (or 44100 Hz) is a sample rate used by music CDs. Less than that and you'll start to hear the loss in quality. You can choose a bit rate you want to use.

Once output settings are customized, you can go to the final step - transcoding.

3. Start to convert any audio files to .alac

Click Convert button to start to transcode music into any audio format you desired. A conversion dialog will appear to show the progress of data conversion. If you want to stop process, please click Stop button. After conversion, you can click an Output Folder button to get transcoded files and transfer to your iPod, iPad, iPhone, media player or hard driver.

During the turning music into alac, you can change priority of the process or set an automatic event to be executed when the conversion is over. After the conversion has finished, you can find your converted files in the output folder you specified.

People often search for "wma alac converter online" or "how to convert wma to alac online" without realizing that uncompressed audio files are large in size and by the time you upload, convert and download files you are better off downloading Audio Transcoder on your PC and perform convention locally = 0 second waiting for uploading and downloading. With our Audio Converter you can easily rip your CDs to ALAC, WMA or WMA files for use with your hardware player or transcode files that do not play with other software. You can even transcode whole music libraries retaining the folder and the filename structure. The integrated CD ripper supports CDDB/freedb online CD database. It will automatically query song information and write it to ID3v2 or other title information tags. Have any questions regarding Audio Converter? See below Frequently Asked Questions.

With WMA ALAC Converter you can convert any media tracks for all iOS devices and play audio on your iPod, iPhone or iPad.

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Software System Requirements:

Minimum System Requirements
- Microsoft Windows XP (32-bit and 64-bit)
- 1.0 GHz or faster processor
- 512 MB RAM
- 10 MB free hard drive space
Recommended System Requirements
- Microsoft Windows 7/8/8.1/10 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Pentium 4 or faster multi-core processor
- 1 GB RAM
- 10 MB free hard drive space

Frequently Asked Questions

We strongly recommend that you first find answers to your questions here before try to contact us.

Q: What is WMA ?

A: Windows Media Audio (WMA) is the name of a series of audio codecs and their corresponding audio coding formats developed by Microsoft. It is a proprietary technology that forms part of the Windows Media framework. Microsoft developed Windows Media Audio in an effort to undermine the MP3, Apple’s AAC compression, and other codecs. Since its initial introduction, the format has grown to support a range of audio types beyond compressed audio — from high-fidelity audio and multi-channel surround sound, to a compression algorithm specifically tailored for the human voice. WMA consists of four distinct codecs. The original WMA codec, known simply as WMA, was conceived as a competitor to the popular MP3 and RealAudio codecs. WMA Pro, a newer and more advanced codec, supports multichannel and high resolution audio. A lossless codec, WMA Lossless, compresses audio data without loss of audio fidelity (the regular WMA format is lossy).
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Q: What is ALAC ?

A: ALAC Apple Lossless, also known as Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC), or Apple Lossless Encoder (ALE), is an audio coding format, and its reference audio codec implementation, developed by by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music and playback on iTunes and QuickTime and on Apple iOS devices, including the iPhone, iPad and iPods. The ALAC data compression method is "lossless", meaning it reduces the size of audio files with no loss of information. Apple Lossless supports up to 8 channels of audio at 16, 20, 24 and 32 bit depth with a maximum sample rate of 384kHz. Apple Lossless data is stored within an MP4 container with the filename extension .m4a. This extension is also used by Apple for lossy AAC audio data in an MP4 container (same container, different audio encoding). However, Apple Lossless is not a variant of AAC (which is a lossy format), but rather a distinct lossless format that uses linear prediction similar to other lossless codecs. Its compression isn't quite as efficient as FLAC, so your files may be a bit bigger, but it's fully supported by iTunes and iOS (while FLAC is not).
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