Extract text from FEV files
To convert your FEV file to another format, you need FMOD Studio or other Game software.
To convert other file formats to the "Audio Middleware Data" file type, you need software like FMOD Studio or a similar tool.
A .fev file is an FMOD Audio Event file, historically created by FMOD Designer (now legacy) and widely used in PC and console video games to manage dynamic sound effects. Unlike standard audio files, an FEV file acts as a conductor's score - it contains the instructions for how and when to play sounds (pitch, volume, randomization, and logic) rather than the raw audio waveform itself. The actual sound data is almost always stored in a companion fsb (FMOD Sound Bank) file.
Because .fev files are proprietary metadata containers, they cannot be opened by standard media players like VLC Media Player or Windows Media Player. Users often have trouble when trying to rip game soundtracks, as extracting the FEV alone yields no audible result. To access the audio, you typically need the matching fsb file and specialized extraction tools. For game modification or archiving, the best approach is to convert the rendered output to WAV (for lossless editing) or MP3 (for casual listening). Tools like vgmstream or foobar2000 (with the vgmstream component) are essential for interpreting the FEV/FSB pair and converting them into standard formats.
Convert.Guru analyzes your FEV file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted FSB, WEM, JSON, MP3, BANK and FDP files.
If you want to convert FEV file to MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, AIFF, OPUS, ALAC, APE or WV, you can use FMOD Studio or similar software from the "Game Audio Event Metadata" 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 FEV, try FMOD Studio or another comparable tool in the "Game Audio Event Metadata" 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 FEV converter.