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* [http://www.etree.org/shncom.html Extra-official Shorten website] at etree | * <s>[http://www.etree.org/shncom.html Extra-official Shorten website] at etree</s> | ||
* [[Lossless_comparison|Lossless Codec Comparison]] by Rjamorim | * [[Lossless_comparison|Lossless Codec Comparison]] by Rjamorim | ||
Revision as of 12:38, 26 May 2019
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.
Addtional Reading
Extra-official Shorten website at etree- Lossless Codec Comparison by Rjamorim