How did they made the .wav files to small!?

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The soundtrack files in Freelancer are so incredible small. How did they do that!? I tried several online converter pages and audacity, but when I convert a soundtrack to a .wav file, it's so much bigger than those Freelancer came with.

For example: music_no_lair_battle.wav (the panic inducing theme you know from entering the nomad sectors in the last missions of the main campaign) is 00.47 seconds long and the file is only 467 kb big. When I use converters to make an mp3 to wav, I end up with a file of a size of 10 megabytes per minute. Sonic sez: "Thaaat's no good!"

Does anyone of you know how they got the files so small without loosing the quality? Can anyone recommend me a freeware program or an online tool?

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