Extract text from Rhythm game songs (CHART)
To convert CHART Songs to another format, you need Clone Hero or other Data software.
To convert other file formats to the "Fragmented Application Data" file type, you need software like Clone Hero or a similar tool.
The .CHART file extension represents a highly fragmented format utilized by completely unrelated software ecosystems. It is most commonly encountered as a Niagara Framework web chart created by Tridium for smart building automation (typically formatted as JSON data). Alternatively, it serves as a custom song map for rhythm games like Clone Hero and Guitar Hero, where it is saved as plain UTF-8 text containing note timing, tempo, and star power parameters.
In niche workflows, .CHART is also used by AmiBroker for XML-based financial chart layouts, or by Ursa Software to store cross-stitch embroidery patterns. Because the extension is shared among these vastly different industries, users often face annoying limits and file association errors when trying to open them on a standard operating system.
Rhythm game .CHART files are completely tied to their specific game engines. Unless you use a community tool like Moonscraper Chart Editor to export the song map to a standard MID (MIDI) file, it cannot be played in standard digital audio workstations. Similarly, Ursa Software embroidery patterns are a closed, proprietary format; you must use a paid program like MacStitch to open them and export them to accessible formats like PDF or JPG.
Standard online converters will fail to process this file because they cannot automatically guess which of the variations you have uploaded. Our analyzer will safely inspect the internal data signature - whether it is JSON, XML, or raw UTF-8 game text - allow you to view the actual contents, and convert it into a standard TXT or JSON file when possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your CHART file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted CRTX, CHT, PNG, XLSX, PDF, ZIP, DOCX, CXF, PT, GME, DATA, IMAGE and NUMBERS files.
If you want to convert CHART file to DATA, IMAGE, PDF, NUMBERS, TMP, TEMP, CACHE, LOG, BAK, OLD, NEW or PART, you can use Clone Hero or similar software from the "Data and Settings Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DEVICE, CACHE, SOCK, SYMLINK, PID, MOUNT, FIFO, LOG, PIPE, TMP, JUNCTION or TEMP files to CHART, try Clone Hero or another comparable tool in the "Data and Settings Storage" category.
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 CHART converter.