Re: [microsound] wobbly (.shn files)

[graham miller <grahammiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

plus with high speed internet and hundreds of gigs of storage, i could care less
about compression... just gimme the music:) eventually all of these silly formats
will be obsolete...

ndk wrote:

> > .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.
>
> "one of" I guess is the operating phrase.
>
> so why this one over .ape, .zap, .flac ?  and the 10 or so more no-loss
> formats out there?
>
> So whats the deal?
> >Shorten is currently the standard lossless compression method used in
> trading communities
> Then why all these confusing formats or are they all pretty much the
> same just confusingly incompatible?
>
> http://research.umbc.edu/~hamilton/shnfaq.html
>  mentioned in the post at least acknowleges there are more at the bottom
> but the sites that get small links there that try to compare em all seem
> unable to keep up with all of them.
>
>  I didn't see much about 24bit or higher, I'd think that would be a big
> factor if its some kind of transfer, temporary archive or extra high
> quality format.
>
> nick
>
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