What is the difference between .shn and .gsm?
- Extension
- .shn
- .gsm
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Shorten
- European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)
- 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.
- A lossy file format used to compress speech in Global Standard for Mobile (GSM) telecommunications. It is very effective for reducing audio file size. However, encoding and decoding audio signals severally is discouraged as the final product will have a lot of noise. Popular with some voice mail software but it is CPU intensive.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-shn
- audio/x-gsm
- Sample
- sample.shn
- Wikipedia
- .shn on Wikipedia
- .gsm on Wikipedia