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    Default Unfamiliar Extension, Help anyone?

    I got some files on my computer, compressed music with the *.SHN (shorten) extension. I didn't hear from it before, so I searched. I found a decompress program for it (shortn32). But it only converts 621 Kb instead of the complete song...Does anyone know a converter or a player? No one seems to know this extension....

    tnx in advance

    PS: Why would anyone compress it with this? The music file is still 32 MB
    I'm just a lurker these days, I feel like an 80 year old gramps, watching his grand children play outside *sigh*

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    Shortn is a lossloss compression program (ie it will decompress to a full .wav, but in compressed form it will sound just as good).

    http://www.etree.org/shncom.html

    Get the newer version, ShortN32 seems to be the name of the older version.

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    For future reference, if you ever run into an unknown file extention, you can check http://filext.com.

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    it's fun to go to that website and just bash the keyboard...lol (I'm very bored...)

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    Originally posted by Del_Boy
    Shortn is a lossloss compression program (ie it will decompress to a full .wav, but in compressed form it will sound just as good).

    http://www.etree.org/shncom.html

    Get the newer version, ShortN32 seems to be the name of the older version.
    I already used the new version, but it just decompressed that 600 Kb.....Instread of 50 MB or so
    I'm just a lurker these days, I feel like an 80 year old gramps, watching his grand children play outside *sigh*

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    Perhaps try an older version then I guess :/

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