- Extension
- .shn
- .snd
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Shorten
- SGI (Silicon Graphics, Inc.)
- 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.
- Generic sound format used by a variety of programs; may be a Macintosh sound resource (from Mac OS Classic), an AKAI MPC audio sample, a generic Amiga sound, or other audio file.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-shn
- audio/basic
