Extract text from TBT files
To convert your TBT file to another format, you need TabIt or other Audio software.
To convert other file formats to the "Music Notation" file type, you need software like TabIt or a similar tool.
A .TBT file is most commonly a music tablature created by TabIt, a legacy Windows-based notation program popular for transcribing guitar and bass music. Unlike universal audio files, .TBT files contain proprietary sequencing data, fingerings, and MIDI instructions that modern media players cannot open. This creates a significant "digital lock-in" problem for musicians: the files are lightweight (often under 50KB) but inaccessible on macOS, Android, or iOS without the original, dated software. Users typically need to convert these files to MIDI (MID) to import them into modern Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) like Logic Pro or notation software like Guitar Pro. For archiving or printing, converting to PDF is the standard solution.
A secondary but important use of the extension is for Toon Boom Harmony animation templates. These files store reusable character rigs, scenes, and palettes. In this context, users often seek to convert or render the template into standard video formats like MP4 or MOV for sharing, though this usually requires the native Toon Boom Harmony software to perform the render.
Convert.Guru analyzes your TBT file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted TSD, CXL and BAI files.
If you want to convert TBT file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use TabIt or similar software from the "Guitar Tablature Notation" 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 TBT, try TabIt or another comparable tool in the "Guitar Tablature Notation" category.
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 TBT converter.