CGRP Converter

Extract text from Pro Tools clip group files (CGRP)


Drop or upload your .CGRP file
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How to extract text from your CGRP file

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

Convert CGRP to another file type

To convert CGRP clip groups to another format, you need Avid Pro Tools or other Audio software.

Convert a file to CGRP

To convert other file formats to the "DAW Clip Metadata" file type, you need software like Avid Pro Tools or a similar tool.


About CGRP files

The .CGRP file is a Pro Tools Clip Group File used by Avid Pro Tools. It acts as a container that groups multiple audio, MIDI, or video clips together on a timeline. This allows sound engineers to easily move, copy, or export complex, multi-track arrangements to other Pro Tools sessions. The primary software required to natively open and utilize these files is Avid Pro Tools. The biggest disadvantage of the .CGRP format is that it is proprietary, closed, and strictly tied to the Avid ecosystem. More importantly, .CGRP files do not contain actual audio data. They only contain metadata referencing external audio files (like WAV or AIFF). Users without an expensive Pro Tools subscription cannot open these files, and standard online audio converters fail to process them because the actual sound media is entirely missing from the file payload. Direct conversion to MP3 or WAV is impossible without the source audio files and the original Pro Tools software. However, converting the embedded metadata to TXT, XML, or CSV to read the file references is sometimes possible. This file format is extremely difficult to open or convert because only the original software can properly read the proprietary data structure. If our analysis detects supported underlying text, viewing the clip names and media references may still be possible.

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


FAQ

If you want to convert CGRP file to MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, AIFF, OPUS, ALAC, APE or WV, you can use Avid Pro Tools or similar software from the "Audio Clip Metadata Container" 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 CGRP, try Avid Pro Tools or another comparable tool in the "Audio Clip Metadata Container" category.



The CGRP 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 CGRP converter.