LAM Converter

Extract text from streaming audio metafiles (LAM)


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

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

Convert LAM to another file type

To convert LAM audio metafiles to another format, you need Netscape Navigator or other Audio software.

Convert a file to LAM

To convert other file formats to the "Streaming Audio Metafile" file type, you need software like Netscape Navigator or a similar tool.


About LAM files

A .LAM file is a Netscape Media Player Streaming Audio Metafile (also known as a LiveAudio Metafile). It acts as a lightweight playlist or pointer that contains the server URL and file path for a remote internet audio stream rather than storing the audio itself. Originally, these files were used by the now-discontinued Netscape Navigator web browser and its native media plug-ins to handle internet radio and early web audio broadcasts. The .LAM format is now entirely obsolete. Its biggest limitation is that it does not contain any actual audio data, which confuses users who expect an audio track. Furthermore, because Netscape Media Servers were shut down decades ago, almost all .LAM files today point to dead links. Standard audio conversion tools will fail instantly because there is no sound payload to process. The only practical conversion targets are plain text formats like TXT to read the URLs, or modern playlist formats like M3U and PLS if the streaming link miraculously still works. This format is notoriously difficult for modern media players to open natively because the specific metafile syntax is no longer supported.

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

Users also converted WMZ, MP4 and ASF files.


FAQ

If you want to convert LAM file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Netscape Navigator or similar software from the "Streaming Audio Pointer" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to LAM, try Netscape Navigator or another comparable tool in the "Streaming Audio Pointer" category.



The LAM 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 LAM converter.