- Extension
- .shn
- .mka
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Shorten
- Matroska
- 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 container format that supports several types of audio compression algorithms; related to the .MKV video format, but only contains audio data.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-shn
- audio/x-matroska
