What is the difference between .shn and .spx?
- Extension
- .shn
- .spx
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Shorten
- Xiph.Org
- 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 file compressed using Speex compression and saved in the Ogg Vorbis container format; designed as an audio compression format specifically for speech; compresses voice at 2 to 44 kbps and supports 8 kHz, 16 kHz, and 32 kHz compression in the same bitstream.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-shn
- audio/ogg
- Sample
- sample.shn
- Wikipedia
- .shn on Wikipedia
- .spx on Wikipedia