- Extension
- .shn
- .mp2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Shorten
- Moving Picture Experts Group
- 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 format that uses MPEG-1 Layer II compression to reduce the file size; mainly replaced by the ubiquitous .MP3 format, but is still used for digital radio and digital television broadcasts.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-shn
- audio/mpeg
