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Title: Shorten
Post by: Mr Larrington on 30 July, 2015, 09:32:13 pm

I have in my possession a number of audio files in this format - it's a lossless wossname and almost extinct in the wild - and would like to convert them into something I can actually listen to.  All the converters I've found on that The Internets are either brain-damaged trial versions or just plain don't work, and the latter includes the dBPoweramp codec.

Any ideas from Thee Panel gratefully received.

Title: Re: Shorten
Post by: Dibdib on 30 July, 2015, 09:37:40 pm

Something of a sledgehammer to crack a nut, but I'd imagine Audacity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity_(audio_editor)) would make short work of it.

Title: Re: Shorten
Post by: fuaran on 30 July, 2015, 09:54:42 pm

Try FFMPEG. It can convert loads of video/audio formats.
Easiest way would be to use WinFF, which gives you a nice GUI with presets for converting to MP3 etc. http://winff.org/html_new/

Title: Re: Shorten
Post by: ian on 30 July, 2015, 09:55:51 pm

Fuaran beat me. But yes

https://www.ffmpeg.org/

will convert SHN to whatever flavour of audio you prefer. See advice above for GUI version.

Title: Re: Shorten
Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 July, 2015, 05:49:47 pm

Ta.

I'm sure I've already got some variety of FFMPG lying around but for some reason it didn't appear in the search results from the Mega-Global Chocolate Manufactury Corporation of Mountain View, USAnia.

Audacity would do it but AFAICT can't automagically convert a large batch of files in one go.  Live recordings of Roky Erickson, mostly.

Title: Re: Shorten
Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 July, 2015, 09:47:10 pm

Quote from: fuaran on 30 July, 2015, 09:54:42 pm

Try FFMPEG. It can convert loads of video/audio formats.
Easiest way would be to use WinFF, which gives you a nice GUI with presets for converting to MP3 etc. http://winff.org/html_new/

Bit of a performance adding input files from multiple folders (32 of them!) but it does seem to be putting the output in the right place.  I doubt I'll ever listen to all of it in this lifetime but...