ADX Converter

Convert ADX files online for free


Drop or upload your .ADX file

How to convert your ADX file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your ADX file.
  2. You'll see a preview.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.

Convert ADX to another file type

The converter easily converts your ADX file to various formats - free and online. No Excel or extra software needed.

  • ADX to MP3
  • ADX to WAV
  • ADX to FLAC

Convert a file to ADX

The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other Audio formats to ADX with high quality output.


About ADX files

The .ADX extension most frequently denotes a compressed audio format developed by CRI Middleware, widely used in video game development for consoles like the Sega Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, and modern mobile titles. These files utilize Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation (ADPCM) to store background music (BGM) and voiceovers efficiently without consuming excessive CPU resources. While optimized for gaming, this format presents significant barriers for end-users: .ADX files are effectively "locked" to the game engine and cannot be opened by standard media players like Windows Media Player or Apple Music. To listen to game soundtracks or edit the audio, users must convert them. For general listening, converting to MP3 or AAC is ideal. For archiving or editing without generation loss, WAV or FLAC are the recommended targets.

Less commonly, an .ADX file may be an Absolute Database index file by ComponentAce, or a compiled source file for Sage X3 (formerly Adonix) ERP systems. These data-centric formats are completely incompatible with audio tools. If your file is not music, it likely requires the specific proprietary database environment to open, and converting it to text formats like CSV or SQL is the only viable path for data migration.

Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your ADX file.

Users also converted MP3, WAV, AXD, AADX, ADSX, AFS, AHX, SFD, PRT1, M4A, HCA, MSF and ADIF files.


FAQ

If you want to convert ADX file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG or CONF, you can use CRIWARE or similar software from the "Game Audio Stream" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to ADX, try CRIWARE or another comparable tool in the "Game Audio Stream" category.



The ADX 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 ADX converter.