BWW Converter

Extract text from BWW files

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How to extract text from your BWW file

Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your BWW file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert BWW to another file type

To convert your BWW file to another format, you need Bagpipe Music Writer or other Game software.

Convert a file to BWW

To convert other file formats to the "Save Profile / Music Score" file type, you need software like Bagpipe Music Writer or a similar tool.

About BWW files

The .bww extension serves two distinct, incompatible communities: musicians and gamers.

1. Bagpipe Music Notation:
Most commonly for conversion users, this is a Bagpipe Writer for Windows file. It contains text-based codes representing bagpipe melody, embellishments, and formatting.

The Problem: These files are proprietary text strings that standard music software (like Sibelius or MuseScore) cannot open directly. You cannot view them on a mobile device or print them without the specific Bagpipe Music Writer or Bagpipe Player software.
The Solution: For printing and sharing, the standard workflow is converting .bww to PDF. For audio playback, users convert to MIDI or WAV.

2. Codemasters Game Save:
Statistically, the majority of .bww files are game save profiles created by the EGO Engine, used in titles like F1 2020, DiRT, and GRID.

The Problem: These are binary or encrypted XML files. Users often want to edit their in-game currency or stats but find the file unreadable in text editors.
The Solution: Modders use tools like the EGO PSSG Editor to decrypt and convert these binaries to editable XML files.

Convert.Guru analyzes your BWW file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted PIO, TXT, PDF, INDD, MID, MP3, PRT, NDS, BSV and DSZ files.

FAQ

If you want to convert BWW file to MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, AIFF, OPUS, ALAC, APE or WV, you can use Bagpipe Music Writer or similar software from the "Game Save & Music Notation" 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 BWW, try Bagpipe Music Writer or another comparable tool in the "Game Save & Music Notation" category.

The BWW 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 BWW converter.