SHNs?

[Jon Brakel]

Inquiring minds want to know. The website is members only, so I didn't have much luck there.

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[Myk]

Shns are a type of music file, like an mp3, except way better.  Shns were developed by music lovers to compress wav file information into a smaller format, but without taking out the top and bottom end of the recording which mp3's do.  It's used primarily for converting a live recording to a format tradable over the internet and is used by techology savy Wookies and Hippies throughout the world.  Recently, a new file format called .flac was introduced into the community.  Expanding on the basic .shn format, .flac allows tapers to record shows at even higher quality (64 bit I believe) and convert them without sacrificing sound quality.  You can check out EtreeWiki for more information.

[kyle]

SHNs save me so much postage money...

[mirth]

SHN is like a zip file... what you put into it is identical to what you get out, provided your archive file didn't get corrupted in transmission.

FLAC is a newer compression codec and while similar to SHN in that your input files are losslessly compressed, it allows for higher bit- and sample rate PCM audio. It is also an Open Source project, which has its own benefits.

FLAC's pronounced as how it appears, SHN is pronounced like 'shin'.

[mirth]

Oh hey Kyle - if yer interested, I have a server that sits idle practically all the time (same one this site sits on)... let me know if you wanna take a look at the contents.

[kyle]

Mirth, that would be great.
Thanks.

[mirth]

Hell, for anyone whose interested:

server: etree.rafansrule.org
port 420
user: etree
password: nanooka22

Please turn off all forms of FTP keep alive & auto reconnect else you will be automagically banned from the server for 18 hours. Also, if you are able to log on but have troubles getting a directory list please turn on PASV mode FTP.

If none of this makes any sense to you, but you want free music, consider checking out http://www.archive.org/audio and/or http://www.etree.org/