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   "name": "Windows Media Player, version 8",
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   "losses": "Re-encoded with lossy codecs by default; try `-c copy` to remux without re-encoding when the codecs fit the container.",
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   "via": "audio-interchange-file-format-family"
  },
  {
   "to": "mpeg-1-2-audio-layer-3",
   "tool": "FFmpeg (WebAssembly)",
   "command": "In the browser at https://openformatdb.org/convert/, or convert_file in the OpenFormatDB MCP server",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy re-encoding.",
   "url": "https://openformatdb.org/convert/",
   "engine": "ffmpeg",
   "via": "audio-interchange-file-format-family"
  },
  {
   "to": "waveform-audio",
   "tool": "FFmpeg (WebAssembly)",
   "command": "In the browser at https://openformatdb.org/convert/, or convert_file in the OpenFormatDB MCP server",
   "fidelity": "lossless",
   "losses": "Lossless for decoded audio; a lossy source stays as degraded as it was.",
   "url": "https://openformatdb.org/convert/",
   "engine": "ffmpeg",
   "via": "audio-interchange-file-format-family"
  },
  {
   "to": "flac-free-lossless-audio-codec-1-2-1",
   "tool": "FFmpeg (WebAssembly)",
   "command": "In the browser at https://openformatdb.org/convert/, or convert_file in the OpenFormatDB MCP server",
   "fidelity": "lossless",
   "losses": "Lossless for decoded audio; a lossy source stays as degraded as it was.",
   "url": "https://openformatdb.org/convert/",
   "engine": "ffmpeg",
   "via": "audio-interchange-file-format-family"
  },
  {
   "to": "ogg",
   "tool": "FFmpeg (WebAssembly)",
   "command": "In the browser at https://openformatdb.org/convert/, or convert_file in the OpenFormatDB MCP server",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy re-encoding.",
   "url": "https://openformatdb.org/convert/",
   "engine": "ffmpeg",
   "via": "audio-interchange-file-format-family"
  },
  {
   "to": "ogg-opus-codec-compressed-multimedia-file",
   "tool": "FFmpeg (WebAssembly)",
   "command": "In the browser at https://openformatdb.org/convert/, or convert_file in the OpenFormatDB MCP server",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy re-encoding.",
   "url": "https://openformatdb.org/convert/",
   "engine": "ffmpeg",
   "via": "audio-interchange-file-format-family"
  },
  {
   "to": "advanced-audio-coding",
   "tool": "FFmpeg (WebAssembly)",
   "command": "In the browser at https://openformatdb.org/convert/, or convert_file in the OpenFormatDB MCP server",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy re-encoding.",
   "url": "https://openformatdb.org/convert/",
   "engine": "ffmpeg",
   "via": "audio-interchange-file-format-family"
  }
 ],
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 "claims": [],
 "verification": []
}