>I have a friend that listens to alot of .shn files. > I used to have a lot of .shn files too. However, .flac is a better format, so I converted them.
I used to play .shn files through a plugin for WinAmp. Perhaps you could try finding information on that plugin and see if he could provide any information that might be useful for someone here to produce something for the slimserver? mkw Audio Compression Tools contains SHN support for converting files to/from .wav. From the readme: SHNDLL32.DLL Provides two-way support for shorten, the current de-facto standard in lossless audio compression. SHNDLL32.DLL is the work of Tony Robinson and SoftSound Ltd., and is subject to the shorten license. So, subject to the license, it may be possible to make some tool that can use this dll to transcode to flac, so that you can keep .shn files but behind the scenes when you select to play them via slimserver, it would decode to .wav and encode back to something else. I use dbPowerAmp with SHN and FLAC plugins to convert all .shn files to flac. It doesn't take too long at compression level 7 or lower. It has the added benefit that files are slightly smaller and you can add tags to describe the music (.shn doesn't support any tags). dbPowerAmp is integrated into Windows file Explorer, so you can eg. do a file search for all .shn files, and in the search results, select all files, then right-click and select to convert them to flac. Leave the PC for a few hours whilst it uses 100% CPU ;) Phil _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
