- Extension
- .shn
- .nut
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Video
- Developer
- Shorten
- The nut file type was created by the FFmpeg project.
- 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.
- The nut file extension is associated with the NUT a patent-free, multimedia container format originally conceived by a few MPlayer and FFmpeg developers that were dissatisfied with the limitations of all currently available multimedia container formats such as AVI, Ogg or Matroska.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-shn
- application/x-nut
