Extract text from data and style files (XMS)
To convert XMS files to another format, you need Agilent MassHunter or other Data software.
To convert other file formats to the "Mass Spectrometry Data" file type, you need software like Agilent MassHunter or a similar tool.
The .XMS file format is primarily utilized as a proprietary Mass Spectrometry data file generated by analytical software such as Agilent Technologies MassHunter and Thermo Fisher Xcalibur. It is designed to store complex chemical spectral readouts and chromatography data. Alternatively, the .XMS extension is used as a musical style file by Yamaha Corporation for their hardware synthesizers, an extended Module System audio format, or as a compressed security archive within Kaspersky antivirus environments.
The core disadvantage of the .XMS format is its heavily fragmented and proprietary nature. Scientific .XMS files are locked to specific vendor ecosystems, often exceeding several gigabytes in size, and cannot be opened by standard data analysis tools or web browsers. They require expensive, specialized software to read. Audio-based .XMS files similarly demand legacy tracker software or specific Yamaha hardware keyboards to playback accurately.
Users typically need to convert scientific .XMS files to open bioinformatics standards like .MZML, .MZXML, or CSV to allow independent analysis in R or Python without paying for a vendor license. For audio variants, converting the file to MIDI or WAV is necessary to utilize the sequence in a modern Digital Audio Workstation (DAW).
Because of these proprietary binary structures, generic online converters consistently fail to process .XMS files. Often, only the original vendor software can properly read or export the raw data. However, you can just drag and drop your .XMS file into convert.guru to identify the exact format subtype, inspect the internal hex or text, and convert it if our analysis detects a supported underlying embedded format.
Convert.Guru analyzes your XMS file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted CLC, GDA and AGF files.
If you want to convert XMS file to INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, ENV, PROPERTIES or RC, you can use Agilent MassHunter or similar software from the "Proprietary Data Storage" 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 XMS, try Agilent MassHunter or another comparable tool in the "Proprietary Data Storage" 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 XMS converter.