Format
Shorten (codec)
Summary
- Name
- Shorten (codec)
- Identifiers
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- Library of Congress Format Description Identifier: fdd000199
- PUID: fmt/1961
- Wikidata QID Identifier: Q597450
- Description
- Shorten is a file format used for compressing audio data.It is used to compress audio files losslessly. One of the first open source lossless compressors, it was created in 1993 by Tony Robinson.
- Note
- https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Shorten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorten_(codec) https://web.archive.org/web/20180904214941/http://www.etree.org/shncom.html https://github.com/digital-preservation/PRONOM_Research/tree/main/Submissions/Shorten
- File extensions
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shn - Submitted by
- Brigham Young University / Brigham Young University
- Developed by
- Tony Robinson / Tony Robinson
Internal signatures
Shorten (codec)
- Description
- BOF, Offset:0, magic bytes: 'ajkg'
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
616A6B67- Endianness
- None
Changelog
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V118
- Release date
- 30 April 2024
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Added format
Shorten (codec): Full entry added. Submitted by Brigham Young University.
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Added signature
Shorten (codec): Signature researched and samples provided by Brigham Young University.