Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your WMS file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert WMS to another file type
To convert WMS skins to another format, you need Windows Media Player or other Settings software.
Convert a file to WMS
To convert other file formats to the "Skin Interface Package" file type, you need software like Windows Media Player or a similar tool.
About WMS files
A .WMS file is a Windows Media Skin package used to alter the graphical user interface of Windows Media Player. Created by Microsoft, these files contain all the visual assets and scripting logic required to change the player's layout, buttons, and overall aesthetic. You can learn more about the software's history on its Wikipedia page. The format suffers from severe real-world limitations today. It is heavily outdated, proprietary, and completely useless on macOS, Linux, or modern media players like VLC. Because it is tied to an obsolete ecosystem, users cannot open or view the internal contents within standard web browsers. Converting a .WMS file usually means extracting its assets. The best target formats are .ZIP (for the archive itself), which yields the internal .XML code, .JS scripts, and image files like .PNG or .BMP. This file format is difficult to open or convert because it acts as a specialized software package rather than a standard document or media file. Standard online converters fail to process it because they expect media streams, not interface bundles.
Convert.Guru analyzes your WMS file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert WMS file to RASTER, WFS, SHP, GEOJSON, INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON, XML, YAML or YML, you can use Windows Media Player or similar software from the "Media Player Interface Customization" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert ZSHRC, CONF, RCFILE, GITCONFIG, RC, PLIST, BASHRC, CONFIG, PROFILE, INI, PREFS or CFG files to WMS, try Windows Media Player or another comparable tool in the "Media Player Interface Customization" category.
The WMS 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 WMS converter.