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Name	Shorten (codec)
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Identifiers	Library of Congress Format Description Identifier: fdd000199 PUID: fmt/1961 Wikidata QID Identifier: Q597450
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Description	Shorten is a file format used for compressing audio data.It is used to compress audio files losslessly. One of the first open source lossless compressors, it was created in 1993 by Tony Robinson.
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Related file formats	None.
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Developed by	Tony Robinson / Tony Robinson
Supported by	None.
Source	Brigham Young University / Brigham Young University
Source date	23 Apr 2024
Source description
Last updated	23 Apr 2024
Note	https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Shorten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorten_(codec) https://web.archive.org/web/20180904214941/http://www.etree.org/shncom.html https://github.com/digital-preservation/PRONOM_Research/tree/main/Submissions/Shorten