Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your AL file.
You'll see a preview.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.
Convert AL to another file type
The converter easily converts your AL file to various formats - free and online. No Media Player or extra software needed.
AL to MP3
AL to WAV
AL to AAC
AL to FLAC
AL to OGG
AL to WMA
AL to AIFF
AL to OPUS
AL to WV
Convert a file to AL
The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other Audio formats to AL with high quality output.
About AL files
The .AL extension primarily represents A-Law Compressed Sound files, a standard defined by ITU-T G.711 for digital telephony. These files contain raw PCM audio data compressed using the A-Law algorithm, commonly used in European telephone systems and older hardware. A significant limitation for users is that .AL files are often "headerless" raw data. Unlike WAV or MP3 files, they lack the internal metadata that tells media players like VLC media player or Windows Media Player how to play them. Consequently, trying to open them directly frequently results in static noise or an "unknown format" error. In other contexts, an .AL file might be a text-based AMPL Model file used for mathematical optimization or a graph adjacency list. For audio files, the practical solution is to convert the raw data to a container format like WAV (which wraps the PCM data with headers) or MP3 for broader compatibility. For AMPL or data files, converting to TXT or PDF ensures the code or lists are viewable without specialized IDEs.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your AL file.
If you want to convert AL file to M4A, ALAC or APE, you can use Audacity or similar software from the "Raw Compressed Audio" 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 AL, try Audacity or another comparable tool in the "Raw Compressed Audio" category.
The AL 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 AL converter.