Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your BANK file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert BANK to another file type
To convert BANK sound banks to another format, you need FMOD Studio or other Audio software.
Convert a file to BANK
To convert other file formats to the "FMOD Sound Bank" file type, you need software like FMOD Studio or a similar tool.
About BANK files
The .BANK file is an audio container used by FMOD Studio, an audio authoring tool for video games created by Firelight Technologies. These files store a game's sound effects, music, and voiceover lines, alongside metadata about how and when the sounds should trigger during gameplay. Users often want to convert .BANK files to extract game music or sound effects. However, the .BANK format is highly problematic for general use. It is a proprietary, compiled format that cannot be played in standard media players. The files are often heavily compressed or encrypted, and they bundle hundreds of individual audio assets into one large, difficult-to-manage file. The best conversion targets for extracted audio are standard formats like WAV, MP3, or OGG. Extracting the audio will give you standard playback capabilities, but you will lose all the interactive gaming metadata, such as dynamic looping points or spatial audio instructions. Because .BANK is a closed, proprietary format designed specifically for game engines, standard online converters completely fail to process it. Usually, only the original FMOD software or specialized community extraction tools can properly read or export the data. Our analysis tool will inspect the .BANK file, reveal text or internal structure, and if it detects a supported underlying format like RIFF, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your BANK file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert BANK file to MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, AIFF, OPUS, ALAC, APE or WV, you can use FMOD Studio or similar software from the "Game Audio 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 BANK, try FMOD Studio or another comparable tool in the "Game Audio Storage" category.
The BANK 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 BANK converter.