- Extension
- .shn
- .wv
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Shorten
- WavPack
- 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 WavPack Hybrid Lossless Compression; supports both lossy and lossless compression, which produces high-quality compressed files; the compression ratio is typically between 30% and 70%.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-shn
- audio/x-wavpack
