.shn files

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What do you think of .shn ("shorten") files as a means to transmit music by download (or on discs, for that matter)? Now that more and more people are getting high speed internet access, it seems to make sense. Any experience with this?

http://research.umbc.edu/~hamilton/shnfaq.html
 
SHN is big with concert tapers. it works, but it's kind of annoying (for me, at least) going through so many conversions. i'm content with 256kbps MP3s. but if you plan to burn the files to CD, SHN is a good way to keep up your sound quality.

i'm reading on that link you posted that a "seek" feature has been added. that's very good news. it didn't use to be possible to seek to, say, 1:49 on a track. that's part of what turned me off from it.
 
For downloading, it sucks, just because it's big. But it's lossless, meaning that though it's considerably smaller than a WAV file, you don't lose audio data if you convert back to WAV (as tapers must often do), as you do with MP3's.

If you wonder what that means, do a Google, or:

A Listen to a CD track on good headphones
B. Rip it to MP3, then convert that MP3 back to WAV. Listen to the WAV file on the same phones.
 
What software do you need to play .shn files? Also, I assume you cannot play them on a regular cd player, and to do so you must convert to .cda as one would with .wav files, correct?
 
mkwAct is a good .SHN utility to convert the files. http://www.etree.org/mkw.html .... i think someone also made a Winamp plugin so it could play them. but i've never used it.

correct, you would have to convert them before you burned a CD. in fact, you would probably have to convert them to WAV and then to cda. but that's all lossless, so it's ok.
 
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