TS to WMA Converter

How to Convert TS to WMA Online

1. Upload Your TS File: Drag and drop or click "+ Add Files" to load .ts transport-stream recordings from your device. Batch upload is supported, so you can process an entire DVR session, IPTV capture folder, or Blu-ray rip in one pass. Files are uploaded over an encrypted connection, processed on our servers, and deleted automatically after a few hours — no sign-up, no watermark, never shared.
2. Pick a Quality Preset or Bitrate Mode: The default is Quality Preset set to "Very High (Recommended)" — pick Highest for archival-grade re-encodes, Medium for balanced sharing, or switch to Constant Bitrate to lock the WMA stream at a fixed rate (8–384 kbps; 128 kbps is the default for WMA Standard). Choose Variable Bitrate for better quality per MB, Custom Bitrate to type an exact kbps value, or Specific file size to target an output in MB.
3. Set Channels, Sample Rate, or Trim (Optional): Use Audio Channel to keep Stereo or downmix to Mono (halves size for voice), set Audio Sample Rate to 44.1 kHz for music or 22.05/16 kHz for spoken word, and open Trim to crop the start, duration, or end of the captured stream — handy for stripping ad breaks or station idents from a DVR .ts recording.
4. Convert and Download: Click "Convert" and download each WMA file individually or grab everything as a ZIP. No sign-up, no watermark, no file-count gate.

Why Convert TS to WMA?

A .ts (MPEG-2 Transport Stream) file is a video container — typically an over-the-air HDTV capture, an IPTV recording, a camcorder AVCHD stream, or a Blu-ray clip. The audio inside is usually AC-3, AAC, or MP2. Pulling that audio out into a WMA (Windows Media Audio) file gives you a Microsoft-native audio-only file that drops into Windows Media Player, older car stereos, Windows-tied workflows, and any device that decodes the WMA codec family natively. Typical scenarios:

• Windows-only playback chains — WMA is decoded natively in Windows Media Player and most legacy Windows-era media center boxes without third-party codecs; AC-3 audio extracted from a TS broadcast capture is not.
• Older car stereos and head units — pre-2015 Sony, Pioneer, Kenwood, and Alpine units commonly list WMA on the supported-format sticker; many do not list AAC or DTS, so converting the TS audio track to WMA makes it playable from USB.
• Smaller files than the raw TS — a 1-hour .ts HDTV capture can easily run 4–6 GB on disk; the same audio re-encoded to 128 kbps WMA Standard is roughly 55–60 MB, a 100× reduction when you only need the soundtrack.
• Voice and lecture archives — TV broadcasts of lectures, news, or talk radio simulcasts compress cleanly at 48–64 kbps WMA, and WMA Standard is competitive with MP3 below 64 kbps where MP3 starts to sound harsh.
• Windows Phone and Zune legacy libraries — anyone still maintaining a Zune or Windows Phone 8 library needs WMA or MP3; WMA is the format Microsoft's ripper used by default.
• Sermons, talk shows, and DVR audio rips — extracting the audio from a TS recording and dropping it into a Windows-based study or transcription tool is usually faster than transcoding the full video.

Need a different output? Reach for TS to MP3 for universal compatibility, TS to WAV for editing, TS to AAC for Apple devices, or use Audio Cutter to trim the captured stream first.

TS vs WMA — Format Comparison

WMA Bitrate Guide — Which to Pick

Numbers below assume stereo at 44.1 kHz using the default WMA v2 (Standard) codec. "Size per hour" is the approximate file size for one hour of audio at that bitrate.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why doesn't my converted WMA file work on my iPhone or Mac?

Apple's macOS and iOS do not include a native WMA decoder, so the Music app and QuickTime reject WMA files out of the box. For Apple devices, convert to TS to AAC or TS to MP3 instead — both play natively in iOS Music, macOS, and CarPlay. WMA is the right pick when your target is Windows Media Player, an older Windows-era car stereo, or a Zune/Windows Phone library.

Which WMA codec does this converter produce — Standard, Pro, Lossless, or Voice?

By default it produces WMA v2 (Standard) at the bitrate you select, because that's the variant decoded by the widest range of devices — Windows Media Player, VLC, Winamp, and most legacy Windows-compatible car stereos all handle WMA v2. WMA Pro (multichannel, up to 96 kHz) and WMA Lossless are not enabled by default because device support outside Windows Media Player is patchy.

Will the audio track inside my TS file change quality during conversion?

Yes — TS captures typically carry AC-3 or AAC audio, and re-encoding to WMA is a lossy-to-lossy step that will not improve the source. To minimize damage, pick a WMA bitrate equal to or higher than the source audio's bitrate (most ATSC broadcasts ship AC-3 at 384 kbps, so a 256 kbps or 320 kbps WMA Standard output is a safe target). If you want zero re-encoding loss, convert to FLAC or WAV instead and accept a much larger file.

Why does my TS file have multiple audio tracks, and which one ends up in the WMA?

Broadcast and Blu-ray TS streams often carry several audio tracks — usually a stereo "main" track plus a secondary audio program (SAP) or descriptive video service (DVS) language. The converter uses the first/default audio stream declared in the program map table (PMT). If you need a specific non-default track, demux the TS first in a tool like FFmpeg or MKVToolNix and feed the isolated audio stream back through the converter.

How small can I make a 1-hour talk-radio TS rip in WMA?

Roughly 22 MB at 48 kbps mono is a clean WMA Standard floor for spoken word; the audio will sound close to AM-radio quality but stay perfectly intelligible on phone speakers and car stereos. If you need to go below 32 kbps, use WMA Voice instead of WMA Standard — it's optimized for sub-20 kbps speech and beats Standard at low rates. For long lectures and sermon archives, 64 kbps mono is a comfortable comfort-quality target at ~29 MB per hour.

Can I batch-convert a whole folder of DVR .ts recordings to WMA at once?

Yes. Drag the entire folder onto the upload area; the converter queues every file and applies the same bitrate, channel, and sample-rate settings to all of them. Each output keeps its source filename with a .wma extension. If your DVR splits long recordings into multiple TS segments, convert each one and either play them sequentially or first concatenate them in a tool like FFmpeg before converting.

Will the WMA file play on Windows 11?

Yes. Windows 11 still includes the Media Foundation WMA decoder used by Windows Media Player Legacy and the new Media Player app, and most third-party players (VLC, foobar2000, MusicBee) also decode WMA without extra codecs. The format has been frozen since the late 2000s — there is no "newer Windows 11 WMA" risk; files produced today play on every Windows version from XP forward.

Does this strip DRM from a protected TS or WMA file?

No. If your source TS was recorded with broadcast flag protection or CableCARD DRM (e.g., a Windows Media Center recording with .wtv/.dvr-ms lineage that's been remuxed to TS), this tool will not decrypt it — Windows DRM and broadcast DRM are not bypassed. The converter only re-encodes streams it can read; encrypted streams will be rejected or produce silence.

Why does WMA at 128 kbps sound better than MP3 at 128 kbps to some listeners?

Microsoft's WMA Standard encoder was tuned aggressively for the 64–128 kbps range and includes psychoacoustic improvements over the original MP3 spec. In Microsoft's own listening tests it claimed near-CD quality at 64 kbps, and many double-blind comparisons in the early 2000s rated WMA above MP3 below 128 kbps. Above 192 kbps the gap closes and most modern listeners prefer modern AAC or Opus over both. If maximum compatibility matters, MP3 still wins; if Windows-only and small-file matters, WMA holds up.