Extract text from BME files
To convert your BME file to another format, you need beatoraja or other Game software.
To convert other file formats to the "Rhythm Game Data" file type, you need software like beatoraja or a similar tool.
A .BME file is a text-based data chart used primarily by rhythm action games simulating the Beatmania IIDX style (7 keys + turntable). Standing for Be-Music Extended, this format is a variation of the standard BMS format, specifically explicitly denoting a 7-key chart layout. Unlike audio files, a .BME contains only the instructions - note placement, timing, and references to external sound (WAV) and image (BMP, PNG) files located in the same directory.
Users frequently experience issues with .BME files due to encoding legacy; many older charts were written in Shift-JIS (Japanese) encoding, which causes "mojibake" (garbled text) or load errors on modern Western systems expecting UTF-8. Furthermore, because the file does not contain audio data itself, users often mistakenly try to convert it to MP3 expecting a song, only to find a few kilobytes of text. To make these playable on modern simulators like beatoraja or osu!, or to analyze the chart data, users often need to convert .BME to OSU, standard BMS, or parse it into JSON/XML. For archiving or sharing without dependencies, converting the rendered output (if you have the assets) to a video file is also common.
Convert.Guru analyzes your BME file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
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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 BME converter.