Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your QPL file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert QPL to another file type
To convert QPL Projects and playlists to another format, you need Quick Devis or other Data software.
Convert a file to QPL
To convert other file formats to the "Project Data File" file type, you need software like Quick Devis or a similar tool.
About QPL files
The .QPL file extension is primarily used for Quantity Takeoff Project files in Quick Devis and estimating software by On Center. Alternatively, it functions as a QuickPlaylist file for SMPlayer, a Qualica Planning Suite project file, or a QuickPlot story idea file for novel writing software like yWriter. Users face significant challenges with .QPL files because they are tightly bound to specific, often expensive, niche software. Estimating project files cannot be natively opened by web browsers, and sharing them requires the recipient to have an active software license. Playlist versions are limited to specific media players and lack the universal compatibility of standard playlist formats. Converting .QPL files is highly recommended to improve accessibility. Project files should be exported to CSV or PDF for data analysis and client reporting. Playlists are best converted to M3U or PLS for universal media player support, while text-based story ideas should be saved as TXT or RTF. Note that converting complex project files outside their native environment may strip out proprietary formulas and software-specific formatting. Because .QPL is often a closed, proprietary format, standard online converters usually fail to process it. Usually, only the original software can properly read or export the embedded data. However, just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible on convert.guru. Our analysis tool can inspect the internal UTF-8 structure and show text or internal content. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your QPL file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert QPL file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Quick Devis or similar software from the "Project Estimation and Media Playlists" 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 QPL, try Quick Devis or another comparable tool in the "Project Estimation and Media Playlists" category.
The QPL 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 QPL converter.