WMA to FAP Converter

Create Ensoniq PARIS little-endian audio from WMA

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Ensoniq PARIS

FAP works with the Ensoniq PARIS DAW — convert WMA for vintage studio use.

Online Conversion

No Ensoniq hardware needed — convert WMA to FAP in your browser.

Correct Byte Order

Our converter produces proper little-endian PARIS audio from WMA.

How to convert WMA to FAP

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Select files from Computer, Google Drive, Dropbox, URL or by dragging it on the page.

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Choose fap or any other format you need as a result (more than 200 formats supported)

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Let the file convert and you can download your fap file right afterwards

About formats

WMA (Windows Media Audio) is a family of proprietary audio codecs developed by Microsoft and first released in 1999 as part of the Windows Media framework. Created to compete with MP3 and AAC, WMA Standard uses perceptual coding to deliver what Microsoft claimed was near-CD quality at bitrates as low as 64 kbps — roughly half the data rate MP3 typically needed for comparable results. The codec family grew to include WMA Professional for surround sound and high-resolution audio, WMA Lossless for bit-perfect archival compression, and WMA Voice optimized for spoken content at very low bitrates. Deep integration with Windows, Windows Media Player, and the Zune ecosystem gave WMA a strong distribution advantage throughout the 2000s, and digital rights management (DRM) support made it attractive to online music stores of that era. Encoding and decoding are handled natively by Windows, requiring no third-party software for playback on any Windows machine. Cross-platform support has improved through libraries like FFmpeg and GStreamer, though WMA remains less universally compatible than MP3 or AAC on non-Microsoft devices. The format still appears in legacy media libraries, though newer codecs have largely taken its place for streaming and portable use.
Initial release: 1999
FAP is a byte-swapped variant of the PAF (Paris Audio File) format associated with the Ensoniq PARIS digital audio workstation, a recording environment popular among project-studio engineers in the late 1990s. Where standard PAF stores sample data in big-endian order, FAP reverses the byte layout for little-endian architectures, enabling direct memory mapping on Intel-based processors without a runtime byte-swap penalty. The underlying payload is uncompressed linear PCM at up to 24-bit depth and 96 kHz sampling, preserving full studio-grade fidelity. Because there is no lossy coding stage, recordings survive unlimited edit cycles with zero generational loss — a critical property during tracking and mixing. The SoX command-line utility maintains read/write support for FAP, making it the most accessible tool for converting legacy PARIS sessions to modern formats. Despite its niche origins, FAP demonstrates solid engineering: the header is minimal and deterministic, eliminating ambiguity that sometimes plagues chunk-based containers. Advantages include bit-perfect audio preservation, fast I/O on x86 hardware due to native byte order, and straightforward interoperability with raw PCM tools.
Developer: Ensoniq
Initial release: 1998

Frequently Asked Questions

Why convert WMA to FAP?

FAP is the little-endian variant of the Ensoniq PARIS audio format. The PARIS DAW cannot import WMA natively, so converting to FAP is necessary to load audio into vintage PARIS sessions.

Which programs can open FAP files?

The Ensoniq PARIS workstation reads FAP natively. SoX supports FAP on all modern platforms, and some vintage audio archiving tools can also import and export the format.

What is the difference between FAP and PAF?

Both are Ensoniq PARIS audio formats storing identical PCM data. FAP uses little-endian byte order while PAF uses big-endian. Choose the one matching your PARIS hardware configuration.

Does converting WMA to FAP affect audio quality?

FAP stores uncompressed PCM, so the decoded WMA audio transfers without further lossy compression. The resulting file will be larger than the compressed WMA source but retains full decoded fidelity.

Can I convert multiple WMA tracks to FAP in one session?

Yes — upload several WMA files and Convertio produces a FAP version of each simultaneously. Download them one by one or grab everything as a single archive when conversion completes.

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