A converted file is worse than the original. The increase in bit rate is hardly relevant, as you noticed,.
If you want to play "everywhere" re-record directly from the source to mp3, preferably with a higher bit-rate. If that needs a new recorder, so be it. Your choice.
Kees
I have an older recorder that records only to wma format. Unfortunately for wider use of the records have to be converted to mp3 so I could play everywhere.
The best wma bitrate with this recorder (OlympusDS-40) is 128kbit. After converting to mp3 same bitrate, the sound considerably worse. Will not improve much even with the big increase. What is equivalent to the quality/size when converting wma to mp3? There is somewhere a comparison of the two formats?
Thanks for response
Peter

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