ITS Converter

Extract text from Impulse Tracker audio samples (ITS)


Drop or upload your .ITS file

How to extract text from your ITS file

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

Convert ITS to another file type

To convert ITS audio samples to another format, you need Inkscape or other Data software.

Convert a file to ITS

To convert other file formats to the "Storage Or XML Rules" file type, you need software like Inkscape or a similar tool.


About ITS files

The .ITS file extension is heavily fragmented. Historically, it is an Info-Tech Storage file developed by Microsoft or an ITOL/ITLS compressed file used by legacy Franklin Electronic Publishing's Bookman devices. The major disadvantage of these legacy versions is their closed, proprietary nature. They are obsolete, undocumented, and impossible to open without outdated hardware or highly specialized legacy extractors.

Modern users are more likely to encounter .ITS files as Internationalization Tag Set rules. Standardized by the W3C and used in vector graphics editors like Inkscape, these files use standard XML to manage translations and localizations. Less commonly, .ITS files function as Impulse Tracker Samples for retro audio editing or Microsoft Internet Document Sets.

Because the older compressed versions are strictly proprietary binary archives, standard online converters will fail to process them. You cannot reliably convert a 1990s Bookman archive to a modern document format. Conversely, the modern tag set variants are easily read but may need conversion to standard TXT or XML for wider compatibility.

Just drag and drop your .ITS file into convert.guru to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. Even if it is a closed proprietary file, our engine will inspect the internal content, reveal any plain text, and determine if an underlying embedded format can be extracted.

Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your ITS file.

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FAQ

If you want to convert ITS file to MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, AIFF, OPUS, ALAC, APE or WV, you can use Inkscape or similar software from the "Data Storage & Translation Rules" 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 ITS, try Inkscape or another comparable tool in the "Data Storage & Translation Rules" category.



The ITS 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 ITS converter.