What is the difference between .shn and .w64?
- Extension
- .shn
- .w64
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Shorten
- Sony
- 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 container file created in Sony's Wave64 format, which is supported by various Sony audio editing programs; useful for audio editing because it supports arbitrary sampling frequencies, channels, and bit depths.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-shn
- audio/x-wav
- Sample
- sample.shn
- sample.w64
- Wikipedia
- .shn on Wikipedia
- .w64 on Wikipedia