ITMS Converter

Extract text from iTunes Music Store links (ITMS)


Drop or upload your .ITMS file
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How to extract text from your ITMS file

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

Convert ITMS to another file type

To convert ITMS links to another format, you need Apple Music or other Web software.

Convert a file to ITMS

To convert other file formats to the "Store Link File" file type, you need software like Apple Music or a similar tool.


About ITMS files

The .ITMS file is an iTunes Music Store Link File. It contains a proprietary URL schema designed to launch Apple's software directly to a specific song, album, movie, or podcast. Historically opened by iTunes, modern systems process these links using Apple Music. The biggest disadvantage is that an .ITMS file is not an audio file. Users often mistakenly believe they have downloaded an MP3 or M4A, but the .ITMS file is just a tiny text-based pointer. It requires Apple's closed ecosystem to function normally and is practically useless on devices without Apple software installed. You cannot convert an .ITMS file to an audio file because it contains zero audio data. However, you can convert it to TXT or HTML to extract the underlying web link and open the store page in a standard web browser like Google Chrome. Because this is a specialized shortcut file, standard media converters will fail.

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


FAQ

If you want to convert ITMS file to HTML, HTM, CSS, JS, PHP, ASP, ASPX, JSP, JSPX, PY, RB or PL, you can use Apple Music or similar software from the "Media Store Shortcut" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert RSS, CSS, CGI, SITEMAP, PL, WEBMANIFEST, JSON, JS, XML, HTML, ICO or HTM files to ITMS, try Apple Music or another comparable tool in the "Media Store Shortcut" category.



The ITMS 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 ITMS converter.