Shorten

File Format
Name	Shorten
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Audio and Music Shorten
Extension(s)	.shn
LoCFDD	fdd000199
Wikidata ID	Q597450

Shorten® (.shn) is an audio compression scheme that is used to compress audio (.wav) files losslessly. This means that after you decompress a Shorten file, everything that was in the original .wav is there.

Format Information

SHN files begin with the ASCII header ajkg

Software

• Shorten encoder
• Shntool

Sample files

• dexvert samples — audio/shorten

Links

• Official site: http://www.etree.org/shncom.html (archived) or Current site
• Multimedia wiki link: Shorten
• Hydrogen Audio link: Shorten
• Wikipedia: Shorten