WMDB Converter

Extract text from WMDB files


Drop or upload your .WMDB file
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How to extract text from your WMDB file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your WMDB file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert WMDB to another file type

To convert your WMDB file to another format, you need Windows Media Player or other Database software.

Convert a file to WMDB

To convert other file formats to the "Media Metadata Store" file type, you need software like Windows Media Player or a similar tool.


About WMDB files

The .WMDB file format serves as the central brain for Windows Media Player, specifically acting as the Current Database that indexes your entire media library. It stores metadata such as file paths, song ratings, play counts, and album art associations rather than the actual audio or video content. Because this is a proprietary system file located deep within the AppData folder (typically CurrentDatabase_372.wmdb), it is heavily locked down and notoriously difficult to parse outside the Windows ecosystem. Users often encounter these files when trying to recover a corrupted library or migrate their listening history to a new player, only to find the file is unreadable by standard editors like Excel or Notepad++. To access the data, you typically need to convert the binary structure into human-readable formats. For auditing your library or exporting song lists, converting to CSV or TXT is the most practical workflow. For attempting to restore playlists, converting extracted paths to M3U is a common workaround, though direct conversion is complex due to the file's internal dependency on the specific Windows installation.

Convert.Guru analyzes your WMDB file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

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FAQ

If you want to convert WMDB file to DB, SQLITE, SQLITE3, MDB, ACCDB, DBF, ODB, FDB, GDB, MYD, FRM or SQL, you can use Windows Media Player or similar software from the "Media Library Indexing" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert NDF, SQLITE3, BAK, RDB, SQL, DB4, MDF, MDB, LDF, DB, DB3 or SQLITE files to WMDB, try Windows Media Player or another comparable tool in the "Media Library Indexing" category.



The WMDB 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 WMDB converter.