Shorten
From Hydrogenaudio Knowledgebase
Shorten is one of the oldest lossless audio formats. It was created by Tony Robinson in the mid-nineties.
It lacks several features like seekability (although there is a "hack" that adds seek support), streamability, support for multichannel and high sampling rates, tagging, ...
The reason why it became very popular is that it was the first open source lossless compressor. It gained huge momentum years ago because of this.
See also[edit]
- Lossless comparison by Rjamorim
External links[edit]
- Extra-official Shorten website at etree (archived on September 4, 2018)
| Audio codecs | ||
|---|---|---|
| Compressed | Lossless | ALAC • FLAC • Lossless Audio • LPAC • LTAC • Meridian Lossless Packing • Monkey's Audio • OptimFROG • RealAudio Lossless • RK Audio • Shorten • TAK • TTA • WavPack • WMA Lossless |
| Lossy | AAC • AC-3 • ADPCM • ATRAC • DTS • MP2 • MP3 • Musepack • Opus • QDesign • Speex • Vorbis • VQF • WMA | |
| Hybrid | ATRAC Advanced Lossless • DTS-HD • mp3HD • OptimFROG DualStream • WavPack | |
| Uncompressed | LPCM • PCM | |
