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'''Shorten''' is one of the oldest [[Lossless]] audio formats. It was created by Tony Robinson in the mid-nineties.
'''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), [[Streaming|streamability]], support for [[Multichannel]] and high [[Sampling rate|sampling rates]], tagging, ...
It lacks several features like seekability (although there is a "hack" that adds seek support), [[streaming|streamability]], support for [[multichannel]] and high [[sampling rate]]s, 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.
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 ==
==See also==
* <s>[http://www.etree.org/shncom.html Extra-official Shorten website] at etree</s>
* [[Lossless comparison]] by Rjamorim
* [[Lossless_comparison|Lossless Codec Comparison]] by Rjamorim


==External links==
* [http://www.etree.org/shncom.html Extra-official Shorten website] at etree {{webarchive|https://web.archive.org/web/20180904214941/http://www.etree.org/shncom.html|2018-09-04}}


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Revision as of 18:57, 27 November 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.

See also

External links