Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your TKM file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert TKM to another file type
To convert TKM karaoke files to another format, you need Kugou Music or other Audio software.
Convert a file to TKM
To convert other file formats to the "Encrypted Cache File" file type, you need software like Kugou Music or a similar tool.
About TKM files
The .tkm file is primarily an encrypted music cache file used by the Kugou Music streaming platform to store downloaded tracks for offline listening. Additionally, some .tkm files function as karaoke music files containing synchronized lyrics. To open these files, users must rely exclusively on the official Kugou Music desktop or mobile application. The main disadvantage of the .tkm format is its aggressive DRM (Digital Rights Management) encryption. It is a proprietary, closed format designed to prevent audio piracy and ecosystem exit. These files require an active subscription to play, and if your subscription expires, the cached files become completely dead and unplayable. Furthermore, .tkm files are not supported by any standard web browsers or media players. Users frequently want to convert .tkm files to standard target formats like MP3, FLAC, or WAV to regain ownership of their music and play it on any device. Converting to MP3 offers broad compatibility at a slight loss of audio quality, while FLAC preserves the lossless stream. Because this is a closed, proprietary format with heavy DRM encryption, standard online converters fail to process it. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data. However, just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. convert.guru can still identify the file format, inspect the file, 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 TKM file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert TKM file to KM, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT or DB, you can use Kugou Music or similar software from the "Encrypted Audio Caching" 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 TKM, try Kugou Music or another comparable tool in the "Encrypted Audio Caching" category.
The TKM 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 TKM converter.