# How do you convert .ogg files to .wav?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 10, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-convert-ogg-files-to-wav/212321 "2003-11-10T01:11:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Teelo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@Teelo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teelo)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-convert-ogg-files-to-wav/212321/1 "2003-11-10T01:11:11Z")

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Theres a really cool song from Unreal 2003 that is strictly in .ogg format, and I would like to convert it so I can listen to it normally.  
I don’t care if it is a wav, or Mp3 or WMA, its all good.  
How can it be done?

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-convert-ogg-files-to-wav/212321/2 "2003-11-10T01:17:44Z")

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Audacity is a freeware sound editor that can open/import/export a variety of sound file formats (including ogg).

You need a third-party encoder such as LAME if you want to output as mp3.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-convert-ogg-files-to-wav/212321/3 "2003-11-10T01:18:00Z")

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Audacity is a freeware sound editor that can open/import/export a variety of sound file formats (including ogg).

You need a third-party encoder such as LAME if you want to output as mp3.

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**Author:** ![typhoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed8c4c/32.png) [@typhoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typhoon)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-convert-ogg-files-to-wav/212321/4 "2003-11-10T02:46:03Z")

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Recent versions of Winamp can play oggs without any additional plug-ins.

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-convert-ogg-files-to-wav/212321/5 "2003-11-10T02:51:02Z")

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First of all, good audio players like Winamp will allow you to listen to it without converting. Secondly, Winamp also lets you do format conversions. (I use it to convert mp3s to wavs before burning. CDR burning programs screw this up all too often.)