- Extension
- .shn
- .ircam
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Shorten
- Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique / Musique
- 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.
- IRCAM SDIF (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique Sound Description Interchange Format). Used by academic music software such as the CSound package, and the MixView sound sample editor.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-shn
- audio/x-ircam
