FPM Converter

Extract text from FPM files

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How to extract text from your FPM file

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

Convert FPM to another file type

To convert your FPM file to another format, you need FreePiano or other Game software.

Convert a file to FPM

To convert other file formats to the "Game Level Map" file type, you need software like FreePiano or a similar tool.

About FPM files

The .fpm extension creates confusion because it serves two completely different communities: musicians and game developers.

1. FreePiano Music File (Audio/MIDI)

Most commonly, an .FPM file is a recording created by FreePiano, a virtual MIDI keyboard implementation for Windows. Crucially, this is not an audio file like MP3 or WAV. It contains timestamped keystroke data - essentially a proprietary sequence of notes.

The Problem: You cannot play this file in Windows Media Player, VLC, or on your phone. It requires the original FreePiano software to render the sound.
The Solution: To share the music, you must open the file in FreePiano and use the Export function to save it as a standard MP4 video or MID (MIDI) file, which can then be converted to MP3 using standard tools.

2. FPS Creator Map File (Game Dev)

Alternatively, .fpm stands for First Person Map, a level data file used by FPS Creator Classic (developed by The Game Creators).

The Problem: These files act as containers for level geometry, lighting data, and object placement. They are often just ZIP archives with a changed extension, or proprietary text definitions incompatible with modern engines like Unity or Unreal Engine.
The Solution: If you are trying to recover assets, try renaming the extension from .fpm to zip and opening it. Otherwise, you will need the legacy FPS Creator software to load and re-export the map.

3. Harry Potter Game Model

A distinct minority of these files are character models or save data associated with older Harry Potter titles developed by EA Bright Light Studio or modded content for Hogwarts Legacy.

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

Users also converted HDF5, BBF, ANB, CFM, RPM, MPH, MPS and MPM files.

FAQ

If you want to convert FPM file to CFM, RPM, MPH, MPS, MPM, JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, C or CS, you can use FreePiano or similar software from the "FreePiano Recording" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert SH, PY, KT, PS1, SWIFT, LUA, PL, JAVA, SCALA, JS, VBS or TS files to FPM, try FreePiano or another comparable tool in the "FreePiano Recording" category.

The FPM 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 FPM converter.