Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your CHORD file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert CHORD to another file type
To convert CHORD chords to another format, you need ChordPro or other Text software.
Convert a file to CHORD
To convert other file formats to the "Music Notation Text" file type, you need software like ChordPro or a similar tool.
About CHORD files
A .CHORD file stores song lyrics mixed with musical chords, typically used by musicians to display sheet music digitally. Programs like SongBook or software supporting the ChordPro standard use these files to render lyrics and chords cleanly on screen. Opening a .CHORD file without dedicated software is frustrating. Because it relies on specific markup tags, opening it in standard word processors like Microsoft Word often results in messy, misaligned text with brackets scattered everywhere. Sharing these files with bandmates or students who lack the right app is a major disadvantage. To fix this, you should convert the file to PDF. A PDF locks the formatting, ensuring chords stay perfectly aligned above the correct lyrics regardless of the device. You can also convert to TXT to extract the raw text, though you will lose the visual alignment. Because .CHORD syntax varies between different music applications, automated conversion is tricky for generic tools. Standard converters often strip the markup or fail completely.
Convert.Guru analyzes your CHORD file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted CHORDAI, CHORDPRO, MP3 and PDF files.
FAQ
If you want to convert CHORD file to TXT, RTF, DOC, DOCX, ODT, PAGES, TEX, LATEX, MD, MARKDOWN, LOG or NFO, you can use ChordPro or similar software from the "Song Lyrics & Chords Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert PDF, DOC, ASC, TODO, NFO, MEMO, README, DOCX, JPG, TXT, NOTE or RTF files to CHORD, try ChordPro or another comparable tool in the "Song Lyrics & Chords Storage" category.
The CHORD 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 CHORD converter.