SMP Converter

Convert SMP files online for free

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How to convert your SMP file

Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SMP file.
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Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.

Convert SMP to another file type

The converter easily converts your SMP file to various formats - free and online. No Media Player or extra software needed.

Convert a file to SMP

The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other Video formats to SMP with high quality output.

About SMP files

The .smp file extension is a "chameleon" format used across three distinct industries, creating significant confusion for users. In the consumer electronics world, it most frequently appears as a Satellite Receiver Video recording generated by set-top boxes using ALI Corp chipsets. These are raw DVR streams that often lack the standard file headers required by players like Windows Media Player, making them appear corrupt or unplayable.

Alternatively, musicians encounter .smp as SmartMusic Performance files - a proprietary format by MakeMusic that contains digital sheet music and accompaniment tracks. These files are notoriously difficult to share because they typically require an active software subscription to open, and they cannot be natively exported to standard formats.

In scientific and industrial sectors, .smp files contain materials characterization data from Micromeritics instruments or CAD symbols from AVEVA software.

Common Conversion Needs:

For Video (DVR/Satellite): Users generally need to convert these proprietary streams to MP4 or MKV for playback on computers and mobile devices. Converting effectively wraps the raw stream in a compatible container.
For Musicians (SmartMusic): The goal is often archiving the score as a PDF for printing or extracting the backing track to MP3 or WAV for practice on standard audio players.
For Data (Micromeritics/Scientific): Researchers need to parse the binary data into CSV, XLS, or TXT for analysis in Microsoft Excel.

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

Users also converted SPM, MP3, RES, ZIP, SCN, VTF, PNG, PAK, JPG, TMP, RPT, XAPK and TSX files.

FAQ

If you want to convert SMP file to MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, AIFF, OPUS, ALAC, APE or WV, you can use MakeMusic SmartMusic or similar software from the "Satellite DVR Video Recording" 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 SMP, try MakeMusic SmartMusic or another comparable tool in the "Satellite DVR Video Recording" category.

The SMP 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 SMP converter.