Inventory any Ableton Live Set (.als) without owning Ableton Live: tempo, tracks, instruments, effects and the sample files the project needs. Ideal for archiving a collection, migrating DAWs, or recovering the story of a track from a backup drive — entirely in your browser, nothing uploaded.
Detailed side-by-side format architecture for ALS Document (.als) and JavaScript Object Notation (.json). Every conversion executes strictly within isolated browser memory without network transit.
Drag and drop your .als file onto the working surface or use the system file dialog. File magic bytes are verified locally on device.
Select a quality preset (Lossless, Visually Lossless, Balanced, Smallest) or adjust advanced encoding switches in the options panel.
Click CONVERT to execute local WebAssembly compilation. Save the finished .json directly to local storage, or stage it for chaining.
Prefer local shell scripting? Run this standard POSIX command on your machine to achieve equivalent transcoding without a web interface:
# Convert ALS to JSON locally
pandoc input.als -o output.jsonWorking with files across multiple web pages? The official convrtr Chrome Extension adds native Side Panel docking, right-click context menu media extraction, and visible viewport capture. Powered by the same zero-upload client-side WebAssembly engine.
Everything structural: the Live version that saved it, tempo, time signature, every track with its instruments and effects, and the exact sample file names the project references — so you know what each project is and which audio files to hunt down.
No tool can: .als files store no audio, only references to sample files on the producer's disk. The JSON lists every referenced sample so you can locate or relink them; rendering stems still needs the DAW with its plugins.
The extractor uses tolerant parsing that degrades gracefully across Live 8 through 12 project schemas. Unknown newer elements are skipped rather than failing the whole file.
No. Decompression and parsing run entirely inside your browser. Unreleased music never leaves your device.
ALS Document (ALS) and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) serve distinct roles across the digital workflow. Converting to JSON provides optimized compatibility, modern compression efficiency, or standardized playback across web browsers, operating systems, and media production environments.
The output format (JSON) is inherently lossless or supports lossless operation. Your original visual or audio fidelity is mathematically preserved without quantization artifacts.
Never. convrtr is architected with a strict zero-upload model. All processing, decoding, decompression, and encoding happen 100% locally on your machine using sandboxed WebAssembly and Web Workers. Your data never touches an external server, database, or analytics collector.
You can execute this conversion locally via command-line utilities such as ffmpeg, cwebp, or ImageMagick. For example: see the developer terminal recipe provided in the technical specifications dossier above. convrtr provides the identical local-first capability directly inside your browser without installing CLI packages.
Yes. You can drop multiple .als files into the instrument to process them concurrently in browser Web Workers, or click 'Open in Master Studio' to queue mixed formats, configure individual targets, and export as a single ZIP archive.
Convert web media, local files, and document assets directly in Chrome Side Panel using client-side WebAssembly, zero-server uploads, and the official convrtr browser extension.
A byte-level walkthrough of the MLW container format: the Root marker, the filename block, the AES-GCM payload, and the one part of the layout nobody has documented.
MLW uses a single fixed encryption key shared across every install of the app. What that means for whether unwrapping it counts as DRM circumvention — in plain English, not legal advice.