- Extension
- .shn
- .au
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Shorten
- Audacity
- Description
- The SHN file format, short for Shorten Compressed Audio File, is a type of compressed audio file developed for efficiently archiving high-quality digital audio. Shorten was one of the early lossless compression methods for audio, meaning it allows the exact original audio data to be reconstructed from the compressed data, without any loss in quality.
- Audio file created by Audacity, a free, cross platform audio editor; uses a proprietary format that can only be opened by Audacity; saved as one of multiple audio data files for an Audacity project (.AUD).
- MIME Type
- audio/x-shn
- audio/basic
