What is the difference between .shn and .m4a?
- Extension
- .shn
- .m4a
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Shorten
- Apple
- 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.
- An M4A file is an audio file created in the MPEG-4 format, a multimedia container format used to store compressed audio and video data. It contains audio encoded with either the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) codec or the Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC).
- MIME Type
- audio/x-shn
- audio/mp4
- Sample
- sample.shn
- sample.m4a
- Wikipedia
- .shn on Wikipedia
- .m4a on Wikipedia