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Discussion in 'Audio' started by matinzen, Nov 24, 2004.

  1. matinzen

    matinzen Member

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    Hello, I have some shn files that I decoded to wav and now I want to reencode to shn, but everytime I try I get an error the error is caused by the shorten DLL. What am I doing wrong, or what do I need to do. Also, is any quality lost when you decode and reencode, could I decode from shn and reencode to flac without losing any quality? I ask because I need the shn or flac files to archive and I don't want to lose any quality.
     
  2. diabolos

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    Since SHN and FLAC are lossless formats there should be no quality loss after conversion. I assume that you are converting .shn to .flac file directly, not .shn to .mp3 (or any-other lossy format) then to .flac right?


    You can't go wrong with lossless!
    Ced
     
  3. matinzen

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    What I really want to do is get my wav file back to shn, but as I mentioned I was getting the Shorten DLL error. I was planning on converting from shn to wav to flac as a last resort because I need the compressed files to archive, I have not decoded to mp3.
     
  4. diabolos

    diabolos Guest

    What software are you using? Using [bold]dBPowerAMP (dMC)[/bold] with its [bold]Shorten (.shn)[/bold] plug-in installed I was able to do .shn to wav, .shn to .flac, and .wav to .shn conversions without any errors. Your goal is to convert your Wave files to SHN files correct?


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    Link to dBPowerAMP (dMC) and other software:
    http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/127334


    Link to SHN codec plug-in on dMC page:
    http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central-shorten.htm


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    Good luck,
    Ced
     
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    I am using mkwACT, and yes, my goal is to convert from wav to shn.
     
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    Using dBPowerAmp and the shn codec I was able to encode the file successfully. Thank you very much.
     

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