Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your ABM file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert ABM to another file type
To convert ABM albums to another format, you need ACDSee or other Data software.
Convert a file to ABM
To convert other file formats to the "Application Metadata File" file type, you need software like ACDSee or a similar tool.
About ABM files
The .ABM file extension is heavily fragmented and used by several unrelated applications. Most commonly, it functions as a Photo Album Metadata File created by ACD Systems ACDSee or ArcSoft PhotoStudio. In these cases, it stores image organization data, thumbnails, or album structures, but rarely contains the actual high-resolution images. Another significant use case is as an Audio Bitmap File for Alilo story player devices, or as a beatmap file for the Audition Online game by T3 Entertainment. Because .ABM files are proprietary and application-specific, they suffer from severe interoperability issues. You cannot open an ACDSee .ABM file in standard image viewers or web browsers. If it is an Alilo or C's ware bitmap image, it remains locked to niche hardware or legacy software. This makes sharing and archiving incredibly frustrating. To regain access to your visual data, conversion is necessary. For standard image data embedded within the file, convert to JPG or PNG for universal web and device compatibility. If the file contains album layouts, converting to PDF is the best archiving strategy. Drag and drop your file here to analyze and convert it - free, online, and without installing software.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your ABM file.
If you want to convert ABM file to MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, AIFF, OPUS, ALAC, APE or WV, you can use ACDSee or similar software from the "Photo Album Metadata Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MIDI, AAC, TTA, AU, WV, DTS, MID, FLAC, RA, MP3, PCM or WAV files to ABM, try ACDSee or another comparable tool in the "Photo Album Metadata Storage" category.
The ABM Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our ABM converter.