Shorten

• Extension: shn
• Samples: http://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/samples/A-codecs/lossless/ (luckynight.shn)

Shorten is a lossless audio compression format using linear predictive coding. It was popular in the mid-90s, but has largely been superceded by newer codecs that offer better compression ratios. FFmpeg contains a decoder for this format.

• Hydrogenaudio wiki entry on Shorten
• Wikipedia article on Shorten