Shorten
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
- Lossless comparison by Rjamorim
External links
- Extra-official Shorten website at etree (archived on September 4, 2018)
| Audio codecs: type/usage | for end-users to encode | on physical media etc. | legacy formats |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lossless | (Uncompr. LPCM) • ALAC • FLAC • Monkey's Audio • MPEG-4 ALS • OptimFROG • TAK • TTA • WavPack | MLP/Dolby TrueHD | La • LPAC/LTAC • RealAudio Lossless • RK Audio • Shorten • WMA Lossless • (others) |
| Lossy | (ADPCM formats) • AAC • AC-3 • MP2 • MP3 • Musepack • Opus • Vorbis | AC-3 • DTS • (Bluetooth codecs) | ATRAC • QDesign • Real Audio • RK Audio (lossy modes) • Speex • VQF • WMA |
| Hybrid lossless&lossy | OptimFROG DualStream • WavPack | DTS-HD MA • MPEG-4 SLS | ATRAC Advanced Lossless • mp3HD |