Name | SHN | MP3 |
Full name | Shorten | MP3 - MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III |
File extension | .shn | .mp3 |
MIME type | audio/mpeg, audio/MPA, audio/mpa-robust | |
Developed by | Shorten | Fraunhofer Institute |
Type of format | Audio | Digital audio |
Description | Shorten (SHN) is a file format used 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 is no longer developed and other lossless audio codecs such as FLAC, Monkey's Audio(APE), TTA, and WavPack (WV) have become more popular. However, Shorten is still in use by some people because there are legally traded concert recordings in circulation that are encoded as Shorten files. Shorten files use the .shn file extension. | MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is an audio coding format for digital audio which uses a form of lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio streaming or storage, as well as a de facto standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and playback of music on most digital audio players. |
Technical details | The use of lossy compression is designed to greatly reduce the amount of data required to represent the audio recording and still sound like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio. An MP3 file that is created using the setting of 128 kbit/s will result in a file that is about 1/11 the size of the CD file created from the original audio source. | |
File conversion | SHN conversion | MP3 conversion |
Associated programs | etree.org Shorten, Foobar2000 with foo_shn plugin, Microsoft Windows Media Player with SHN DirectShow Filter, Nullsoft Winamp Media Player 5.6 with SnhAmp plugin, Trader's Little Helper | VLC media player, MPlayer, Winamp, foobar2000. |
Wiki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorten_(file_format) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3 |