N00b question; is .SHN a lossless codec?

marcel-v · Mar 8, 2010

Hi, is .SHN a lossless codec?

miles01110 · Mar 8, 2010

Noob answer:

google it.

marcel-v · Mar 8, 2010

miles01110 said:
Noob answer:

google it.

n00b response: I already have, and read contradictory answers. thank you for your response, you could have just answered it.

miles01110 · Mar 8, 2010

Conflicting answers? These are quotes from the first four hits in the google search.

Shorten (SHN) is a file format optimized for compressing audio data. It is a form of data compression of files and is used to losslessly compress CD-quality audio files (44.1 kHz 16-bit stereo PCM).

Shorten® (.shn) is an audio compression scheme that is used to compress audio (.wav) files losslessly.

Shorten (extension .shn) is an audio compression scheme written by Tony Robinson of SoftSound that can compact wav files without subtracting out any frequencies. It's "lossless"- everything in the original wav is there, so that full quality is maintained.

What is SHN?
SHN is a file format. SHN is short for "shorten". SHN files are compressed ("shortened") WAV files. SHN uses a lossless compression method.

spinnerlys · Mar 8, 2010

marcel-v said:
n00b response: I already have, and read contradictory answers. thank you for your response, you could have just answered it.

So http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorten and http://userpages.umbc.edu/~hamilton/shnfaq.html and the official paper released by the developers of SHN has not answered your question?

marcel-v · Mar 8, 2010

thanks for the answers

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