Add your WMA file
Drop one or more .wma files onto the converter above, or browse for them. They load into browser memory only — nothing is uploaded, so there is no size-based pricing and no server queue.
WMA to M4R
Re-encoding .wma audio as .m4r changes how the sound is compressed and which players will accept it. Free, private, and validated — the file never leaves your browser.
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Drop WMA files here
Batch files can each use a different output. Nothing uploads for local conversions.
Working inputs include camera RAW, browser-local audio/video, PDF, CBZ/CBR comics, office documents, ebooks, markup, 3D models, structured text, images, and archives.About converting Windows Media audio to Apple ringtone
Re-encoding .wma audio as .m4r changes how the sound is compressed and which players will accept it. A .wma file contains Windows Media Audio, Microsoft's proprietary compressed format, wrapped in the same ASF container as WMV video. It shipped with every copy of Windows for a decade, so ripped CDs and store purchases from that era survive as .wma libraries.
An .m4r file is an iPhone ringtone: AAC audio in an MPEG-4 container, identical to an .m4a in everything but the extension. Apple uses .m4r purely as a routing marker so iTunes and iOS file the audio under Tones instead of Music. For this route the practical draw is the only ringtone format iOS accepts and full AAC quality, indistinguishable from the source track — balanced against tones over 40 seconds are rejected outright, which is worth knowing before you commit a large batch.
Why convert WMA to M4R?
The practical trigger for this conversion is usually a mismatch: with .wma, proprietary and effectively abandoned. Switching to .m4r buys you the only ringtone format iOS accepts, which is why it is the better fit for turning a favorite song's hook into a custom iPhone ringtone. Because the conversion runs locally, trying it costs nothing but a few seconds of compute on your own machine.
WMA vs M4R at a glance
| Aspect | Windows Media audio (.wma) | Apple ringtone (.m4r) |
|---|---|---|
| Format type | Lossy — discards detail it judges invisible to shrink files | Lossy — discards detail it judges invisible to shrink files |
| How it stores data | the standard codec is a lossy transform coder supporting up to 48 kHz stereo | shares the ISO base media layout of .m4a, carrying AAC-LC audio |
| Strongest at | converting old ripped-CD libraries to MP3 or FLAC | turning a favorite song's hook into a custom iPhone ringtone |
| Weak spot | proprietary and effectively abandoned | tones over 40 seconds are rejected outright |
| Metadata | aSF attributes mirror ID3 basics such as title, artist, album, and artwork, and Windows Media Player wrote extended library fields on top | standard iTunes atoms apply, though iOS shows only the title in the ringtone picker |
Pick M4R as the output
Select .m4r in the output menu next to each file. The menu only offers targets this engine can genuinely produce, so if M4R is selectable, the route is real and validated.
Convert on your device
Press Convert. The transcode runs on an FFmpeg engine compiled to WebAssembly, so the audio never leaves your device.
Verify and download
Each result is signature-checked before the download unlocks, so a failed encode can never masquerade as a valid M4R file. Outputs keep the original filename with the .m4r extension.
WMA to M4R questions, answered
Will converting WMA to M4R lose quality?
A second lossy step always costs a little, because wma is lossy-oriented and m4r is lossy-oriented and each encoder discards detail differently (generation loss). At the default quality the difference is rarely visible; avoid repeated round-trips between .wma and .m4r.
Is it private to convert WMA files here?
Yes — the .wma file is processed inside your browser tab and never uploaded. The transcode runs on an FFmpeg engine compiled to WebAssembly, so the audio never leaves your device. Close the tab and the file is gone from memory.
Where will the M4R file work?
iPhones accept .m4r only through iTunes or Finder sync and GarageBand export, and every Apple device can play it since the audio is ordinary AAC. Other platforms open the file happily after a rename, though Android sources its ringtones from plain MP3 or OGG instead.
Will the M4R file be bigger or smaller than my WMA?
It depends on the content: shares the ISO base media layout of .m4a, carrying AAC-LC audio. Convert one representative file first and compare before batch-processing a large set.
What happens to the metadata in my WMA file?
This converter strips container metadata deliberately (the FFmpeg command runs with metadata mapping disabled) so exported files do not leak recording details. In the source, aSF attributes mirror ID3 basics such as title, artist, album, and artwork, and Windows Media Player wrote extended library fields on top; none of it is transmitted anywhere because the file never leaves your browser.