Extract text from CHART files
To convert your CHART file to another format, you need Clone_Hero or other Game software.
To convert other file formats to the "Rhythm Game Level Data" file type, you need software like Clone_Hero or a similar tool.
The .chart extension serves two distinct but technical purposes: it is either a text-based rhythm game track used by enthusiasts of Clone Hero and Guitar Hero, or a configuration file for the Tridium Niagara Framework.
For gamers, a .chart file is a plain text script that defines note placement, BPM changes, and events for a song. Unlike a standard MID (MIDI) file, this format is specific to community editors like Moonscraper and is not recognized by standard audio players or DAWs like Ableton Live. Users often face friction here: you have the data, but you can't hear it or edit it without specialized tools. To make this data usable in standard music software, you generally need to convert it to MID.
In the industrial automation sector, .chart files are often just standard JSON files disguised with a different extension, used to define web charts in the Niagara Framework. The primary frustration here is file association - Windows won't know how to open it. Renaming the extension to JSON or converting it to PDF for documentation is the most pragmatic workflow. Less commonly, this file might be a cross-stitch pattern from Ursa Software, which is a proprietary binary format that requires the original software to view or print.
Convert.Guru analyzes your CHART 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 CHART converter.