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Summary
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.
Orientation
Byte order
Related file formats	None.
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Released
Supported until
Format Risk
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