Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your TAK file.
You'll see a preview.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.
Convert TAK to another file type
The converter easily converts your TAK file to various formats - free and online. No Media Player or extra software needed.
TAK to FLAC
TAK to MP3
TAK to WAV
TAK to AAC
TAK to OGG
TAK to WMA
TAK to AIFF
TAK to OPUS
TAK to WV
Convert a file to TAK
The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other Audio formats to TAK with high quality output.
About TAK files
Most often, a .TAK file is a high-performance lossless audio archive created by Tom's Audio Kompressor. Audio enthusiasts favor this format because it achieves higher compression ratios than FLAC or .WavPack while maintaining extremely fast decoding speeds. However, this efficiency comes at a cost: compatibility is very poor. Popular media players like Windows Media Player, QuickTime, and default smartphone apps cannot open .TAK files natively. To listen to these tracks on standard devices, you typically need to convert them to MP3 (for portability) or FLAC (to maintain lossless quality with better hardware support).
In professional 3D and animation workflows, a .TAK file might alternatively be a motion capture data file generated by OptiTrack Motive. These files contain skeletal tracking data recorded by motion capture cameras. Because this format is proprietary to the OptiTrack ecosystem, you cannot import a raw .TAK file directly into Blender or Autodesk Maya. The standard workflow requires exporting the data from Motive into a widely supported interchange format like FBX, BVH, or C3D.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your TAK file.
If you want to convert TAK file to M4A, ALAC or APE, you can use foobar2000 or similar software from the "Lossless Audio Compression" 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 TAK, try foobar2000 or another comparable tool in the "Lossless Audio Compression" category.
The TAK 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 TAK converter.