Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your MTD file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert MTD to another file type
To convert MTD Sheet music to another format, you need Musicnotes Player or other Data software.
Convert a file to MTD
To convert other file formats to the "Proprietary Data File" file type, you need software like Musicnotes Player or a similar tool.
About MTD files
The .MTD file extension is heavily fragmented and used across several totally different software ecosystems. Its most common application is as a Musicnotes Digital Sheet Music file, downloaded via the Musicnotes store. These files are proprietary and often locked with digital rights management (DRM). This means you are forced to use the official Musicnotes apps to view or print them, creating a significant disadvantage if you need to share the sheet music with bandmates or open it on unsupported devices. Similarly, .MTD files are generated by Mesa Labs equipment as gas flow calibrator logs, which require specific, niche software to read and analyze. Other common uses include Evernote note metadata (formatted in JSON), MediBang Paint brush files (which are actually renamed ZIP archives), and Autodesk Powermill machine tool definitions (XML-based).
To regain control over your data, you must convert these files. For sheet music, converting .MTD to PDF is the absolute best choice for printing, offline archiving, and cross-platform compatibility. If you need to embed the music on a website, converting to JPG or WebP is ideal. For gas flow data, exporting to CSV unlocks the ability to analyze the hardware logs in standard spreadsheet software. For brush files and metadata, extracting the raw ZIP, JSON, or XML contents allows developers and digital artists to modify the underlying parameters directly.
Convert.Guru analyzes your MTD file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert MTD file to TMP, TEMP, CACHE, LOG, BAK, OLD, NEW, PART, DOWNLOAD, CRDOWNLOAD, LOCK or PID, you can use Musicnotes Player or similar software from the "Digital Sheet Music Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DEVICE, CACHE, SOCK, SYMLINK, PID, MOUNT, FIFO, LOG, PIPE, TMP, JUNCTION or TEMP files to MTD, try Musicnotes Player or another comparable tool in the "Digital Sheet Music Storage" category.
The MTD 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 MTD converter.