What is the difference between .shn and .vms?
- Extension
- .shn
- .vms
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Shorten
- VoidMail
- 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.
- Used in Germany to compress speech audio for voice mail. A self-describing variant of cvsd (Continuously Variable Slope Delta modulation).
- MIME Type
- audio/x-shn
- audio/x-vms-compressed-void-mail
- Sample
- sample.shn
- sample.vms
- Wikipedia
- .shn on Wikipedia