What is the difference between .shn and .cda?
- Extension
- .shn
- .cda
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Shorten
- Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA)
- 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 ripped from a CD formatted using the CD Digital Audio specification; can be extracted using applications such as iTunes or Logic Pro; used for saving CD audio data to a computer, as well as burning new CDs.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-shn
- audio/x-cda
- Sample
- sample.shn
- sample.cda
- Wikipedia
- .shn on Wikipedia
- .cda on Wikipedia