- Extension
- .shn
- .cvsd
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Shorten
- Adaptive Digital Technologies
- 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.
- Continuously Variable Slope Delta Modulation Audio is a headerless format used to compress speech audio for applications such as voice mail.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-shn
- audio/x-cvsd
