SHN support (length, MDBU)

[JLoftus]

Hi Don, is it possible (or maybe in the future) to support the SHN audio file format (Shorten) for giving track length, and for previewing using MDBU?

Thanks

Jeff

[highend]

If the codec doesn't report back the track length via a windows property / you don't have a preview handler for it: Nope

[JLoftus]

OK thanks, that's what I was afraid of. I have thousands of lossless audio folders, most are FLAC, but some are SHN. As I go through them, I convert them to FLAC but I was hoping XY might be able to preview them first.

Thanks again

[jupe]

IMO it's probably better doing the preview in a media manager/player that supports that format, or you could convert just say a 30sec clip of each if you wanted to do it in XY,

If using ffmpeg it could be done something like this:

ffmpeg.exe -i filename.shn -t 30 filename.mp3

you could also script it to parse the ffmpeg output and add the duration of the original file to the output sample filename.