XBMML Converter

Extract text from Braille music files (XBMML)


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

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

Convert XBMML to another file type

To convert XBMML Braille files to another format, you need Specialized Braille Translators or other Text software.

Convert a file to XBMML

To convert other file formats to the "XML Markup Language" file type, you need software like Specialized Braille Translators or a similar tool.


About XBMML files

.XBMML files are XML-based documents used to store music notation specifically formatted for Braille output. Developed by The Contrapunctus Project, these files allow complex musical scores to be digitized for blind musicians. You can open these files with specialized Braille music translation software or inspect them in standard text editors like Notepad++. However, this format is extremely niche. While it is based on standard XML structure, it cannot be rendered natively by mainstream music notation software like MuseScore or Sibelius. Users often struggle to read the raw markup and need tactile or standard visual outputs. The best conversion targets are BRF (Braille Ready Format) for hardware embossing, or standard MUSICXML and XML for broader compatibility. Because .XBMML uses a highly specialized semantic schema, standard online converters fail to process it.

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


FAQ

If you want to convert XBMML file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Specialized Braille Translators or similar software from the "Braille Music Notation Storage" 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 XBMML, try Specialized Braille Translators or another comparable tool in the "Braille Music Notation Storage" category.



The XBMML 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 XBMML converter.