What is the difference between .shn and .mpa?
- Extension
- .shn
- .mpa
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Shorten
- MPEG
- Description
- Audio file compressed using Shorten lossless compression; compresses CD-quality audio without losing any quality; similar to FLAC (.FLAC) and Monkey's Audio (.APE) compression.
- An MPA file is an audio file compressed with MPEG Layer II compression, which reduces the file size while minimally affecting the overall sound quality. It is based on the MPEG-1 audio-coding standard and was later updated for the MPEG-2 specification.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-shn
- audio/mpeg
- Sample
- sample.shn
- sample.mpa
- Wikipedia
- .shn on Wikipedia
- .mpa on Wikipedia