Re: [microsound] wobbly (.shn files)

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..shn is in fact one of the most impressing stuff I've experienced last week.
It compress .wav files on about 50% of it's size which was helping me to
transfer 600 MB at the size of only about 300.

great!

And yes: it works on Mac too.

best:::

ma_hovina

Am 10.01.2003 19:12 Uhr schrieb "graham miller" unter
<grahammiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> i dunno. i give up. seems like an incredibly backassward way of trying to
> listen to music... why not just put them on the server as wav, aiff, or mp3
> files... the files are still massive, so i'm guessing it has very little to do
> with compression. oh well... i'll look for the show on hotline or something,
> even as they sit it this weird format on my harddrive...
> 
> g.
> 
> Matthew Allen wrote:
> 
>> http://research.umbc.edu/~hamilton/shnfaq.html
>> 
>> this will answer all of your questions. I had trouble getting the raw .shn
>> files to play in winamp, so I just converte them to wav files
>> 
>> m.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: graham miller [mailto:grahammiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 9:23 AM
>> To: microsound
>> Subject: Re: [microsound] wobbly (.shn files)
>> 
>> it's only available for windows... any way to open these files on a mac?
>> 
>> thanks for the info
>> 
>> graham
>> 
>> StaticBeats wrote:
>> 
>>> .shn is a "Shorten" file: "SoftSound's Shorten is an established low
>>> complexity waveform coder. It is fast and has low memory usage and thus is
>>> suitable for stand alone or embedded operation for a wide range of
>>> audio-like signals."
>>> 
>>> Head over to the SoundSoft website and download their
>>> compressor/decompressor: http://www.softsound.com/Shorten.html
>>> 
>>> It's incredibly easy to use.
>>> 
>>> Shimone/Justes
>>> http://www.staticbeats.com
>>> Electronic Music > Digital Culture
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "graham miller" <grahammiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 9:43 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [microsound] wobbly
>>> 
>>>> hey,
>>>> 
>>>> tried downloading those files off ythe archive but they are .shn files
>>>> which i have never heard off and can't to play in any apps... any help
>>>> here would be appreciated... what's an .shn???
>>>> 
>>>> thanks
>>>> 
>>>> graham
>>>> 
>>>> Lance Grabmiller wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>> From the wobbly website;
>>>>> 
>>>>> 22 December 2002
>>>>> The wonderful Internet Archive has agreed to host a
>>>>> copy of the Matmos / People Like Us / Wobbly concert,
>>>>> and it is here for those of you with high speed
>>>>> connections. It's only available as a single 350 MB
>>>>> file, but it expands to full fidelity WAV files, a
>>>>> digital clone of the board recording. And at the
>>>>> current rate of my server, it's probably easier to
>>>>> download from there anyway. Many of the mp3's I've had
>>>>> to take down seem to be popping up mirrored here and
>>>>> there on other sites, but those sites often vanish
>>>>> faster than I can link to them. Watching the early
>>>>> days of the Internet come to a close. Happy Holidays.
>>> 
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