In February 2011, the same article reported instead that 'Shorten is no longer developed and more recent lossless audio codecs such as FLAC, Monkey's Audio (APE), TTA, and WavPack (WV) have become more popular. In August 2006, the Wikipedia Shorten article reported that Shorten was a popular format due to the large number of legally tradable concert recordings in circulation that are encoded as Shorten files.

Some documentation and downloadable executables from. For preservation reformatting, the Library prefers Broadcast WAVE ( WAVE_BWF_1 and WAVE_BWF_2).ĭeveloped by SoftSound, Ltd., with extensions from. Shorten version 3.6.1, not described at this Web site. The article also reports that since few players or media writers decompress Shorten files, a standalone decompression program is usually required to transcode Shorten data for playback see Notes below. According to the Wikipedia article on Shorten (consulted February 25, 2011), this capability is limited to CD-quality (44.1 kHz 16-bit stereo) source material. Shorten Lossless Audio Compression Format, Version 3.5.1įormat used to losslessly compress LPCM audio files. Draft status: Partial (low priority for LC).

Monkey audio codec