> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Check out www.etree.org , the .SHN (Shorten) format is
> lossless compression, and can be played in winamp (with a
> plugin).  Not sure what the compression ratio is.
>
> JT

Nothing special, just 2:1 in lossless mode, based on Huffman coding.
Anyobody can do fast 2:1 lossless. LempelZev + Huffman can do better than
2:1.
Here's a technical report on Shorten:
http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~ajr/GroupPubs/Robinson94-tr156/index.html

Found the link to it from http://www.softsound.com/Shorten.html

  -- Howard Chu
  Chief Architect, Symas Corp.       Director, Highland Sun
  http://www.symas.com               http://highlandsun.com/hyc  >

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