burn audio CDR from SHN

[coyote]

Is there a way to burn audio CDRs directly from SHN files?

(I know how to do so from FLAC files via creating CUE files.)

[LIGHTNING UK!]

I've never come across SHN files, what are they and what creates them?

[coyote]

For years, before FLAC took it's place, SHN was the dominant audio compression format.  IIRC that was sometime before the SHN codec's last update 7 years ago per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorten_%28file_format%29 which also notes that "Shorten is still in use by some people because there are legally traded concert recordings in circulation that are encoded as Shorten files."   (Particularly as conversion to FLAC is sometimes considered an additional generation, perhaps validly if not checksum verified; a SHN file's ST5 fingerprint before a good conversion will = a FLAC file's FFP fingerprint.)

 

So nobody much needs to create SHN anymore (FLAC is better), we just need to burn them to audio CDR when we encounter an old fileset still circulation.  I used to create SHN files with a program called mkwACT.

 

I thought Imgburn might have a plugin or something to support SHN.  If not I'll continue to take the common approach of using Trader's Little Helper to convert SHN to WAV for burning.

Edited July 28, 2014 by coyote

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Ah I have heard of shorten, I just wasn't aware of its file extension.

 

ImgBurn will support anything that has a directshow filter as that's what it uses for the conversion process - it's all automatic.