Different kinds of files
An image stores pixels; an audio file stores a sound waveform. Neither contains the other, so no tool can turn a sound recording into a picture.
Looking to turn a MP3 into XBM? Here's the honest answer — and the conversions that actually work.
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MP3 is the universal compressed audio format, balancing small size with good quality.
MP3 plays in every media player and browser.
XBM (X BitMap) is an X Window monochrome format stored as C source code, historically used for icons and cursors in Unix.
XBM opens in GIMP, ImageMagick and text editors; convert to PNG for normal use.
No. Audio and images are fundamentally different, so there's nothing to convert. You can convert your MP3 to WAV, AAC or FLAC instead.
Maybe a waveform/album-art image, or adding this audio to a video — those are separate tools, not a MP3→XBM conversion.
MP3 converts cleanly to WAV, AAC or FLAC — free, no sign-up, no watermark.