Well, I hope some of you find this post useful. That post is really quite definitive if you are interested in using PACPL in Ubuntu (and perhaps useful if you are using another distribution) According to this post over at Ubuntu it can be connected with different GUI’s (the poster uses KDE but there may be ways to connect to Gnome GUI’s as well). Like I said, I didn’t test PACPL but it does look like a powerful utility. It did the job and I was able to convert all this early Zep live material into my preferred audio format.
It does not only allow you to convert the DAV. The Shorten Compressed Audio file type, file format description, and Mac, Windows, and Linux programs listed on this page have been individually researched and verified by the FileInfo team.
#Convert shn files how to#
I don’t like having to install all of the extra library support that comes from installing a KDE application into a Gnome environment, but so it goes. Our goal is to help you understand what a file with a.shn suffix is and how to open it. Once I figured out its controls (its GUI is a bit sloppy) I was able to convert files over without too much hassle. I did run into some troubles with SoundKonverter, but these were not show stoppers. Regardless, I was obligated to use the KDE application. Perhaps there was a quirk with these particular Shorten files. Perhaps it didn’t like the file location (a secondary mounted drive). I had a terrible time with SoundConverter.
#Convert shn files download#
It looks wickedly powerful but I did not load it as I wanted to use what I could download through Synaptic. PACPL is a Perl application for the command line. Winamp ( I am not clear if these plugins are always included out of the box) will also make these conversions on Windows machines. SoundKonverter is a KDE based application (also available through Synaptic and functional within Gnome). SoundConverter is a Gnome based application (available through Synaptic). There are four applications which I know will make the conversion from Shorten files to FLAC files: SoundConverter, SoundKonverter, Winamp, and PACPL. Since both formats are lossless this should represent no change in audio quality as it represents no change in information. Making these conversions was a bit on the clunky side, but fortunately it only needs to be done once and then you can discard those naughty antiquated Shorten files. Of course VLC will handle them on any platform. On the Mac there is a QuickTime plugin and iTunes can be induced to play them (see my post) or more easily there a few applications available ( Cog, Play, Vox).
On Windows you can use Winamp or I am told there exists a plugin for WMP. Widely supported? On Ubuntu everything that plays audio likely plays FLAC files. I am able to add proper tags to the FLAC files, they are compressed smaller than the original Shorten files, and the FLAC’s are widely supported on all platforms. (If you are not very familiar with FLAC’s you may want to check our my earlier post.)
#Convert shn files free#
flac files ( FLAC or Free Lossless Audio Codec). Since tagging is not available, the compression could use improvement, and Shorten files are not very well supported on any platform I have been converting my. However, out there on the Interweb you will still find Shorten audio files-particularly on live music exchange sites. It has all of the detriments of using waves and it really doesn’t compress very far (nor very fast). The Shorten (.shn) audio format was an early attempt at compressed lossless audio.
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