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Comments (30)
  1. patk  |   Posted on Jun 4th, 2005

    Using the mkw Audio Compression Tool [http://www.etree.org/mkw.html] can take you from .shn to .wav easily, then iTunes’ll be able to convert the .wav files to .mp3.

  2. xACT is free and easy for Mac users. You can convert to AIFF or WAV and then drop into iTunes.

  3. Prepare for the wrath of the SHN audiophile nazis, who insist that an SHN should never be converted to an MP3 for fear of the inferior-quality copy infecting the world.

  4. Billy K  |   Posted on Jun 4th, 2005

    I seem to recall Stereogum is a Mac-user (like me), so, yeah, X-Act is probably the most complete app, but the GUI tends to get in my way. I use a down-n-dirty SHN converter called “Carbon Shorten” that works well, but is GUI-challenged. You can get it here, I believe: http://www.softsound.com.

    And, yeah…you really shouldn’t convert SHN/FLAC to MP3. It does wreak some real havok amongst traders.

  5. Yale Bloor  |   Posted on Jun 4th, 2005

    I need to convert MP3s to 8 track any help?

  6. Dude, I’m all for converting. Fuck those elitist “DO NOT ENCODE TO MP3″ bitches. Some of us don’t have hard drive space coming out our ass.

  7. Does anyone know how to convert Flac to MP3?

    Preferably for a mac. Preferably on the free and easy tip, too….

  8. mjalex  |   Posted on Jun 4th, 2005

    FLACer.

    It has a nice/simple GUI. Of course, it only converts to AIFF or WAV. Then you’ll use the LAME iTunes plug-in to convert to MP3.

  9. mkwACT is a really good one.

    go to etree.org …

    now onto celebrity gossip…
    anybody hear about this???

  10. Grant  |   Posted on Jun 4th, 2005

    Get Shorten (freeware), which will convert to AIFF, and then convert to m4a (AAC) in iTunes. That’s all I ever do, and it works out super. Here’s the link I used.

    http://www.hornig.net/shorten.html

  11. Anna  |   Posted on Jun 4th, 2005

    I second the xACT recommendation–it converts ‘em all (.flac, .shn, even .ape). But as stated elsewhere, it converts to .aiff or .wav only, but that’s an easy conversion in iTunes or most other audio programs.

  12. Chris  |   Posted on Jun 5th, 2005

    mp3 is proprietary. we need to find something else as it is.

  13. I don’t get it. Why would you want to convert shn to mp3? Is hard drive space that expensive? Its impossible to convert back.

    • charlie: I have downloaded almost 18,000 albums of music to my PC, averaging 37MB each (by downsampling to 96kbps). shn would multiply that 37MB by a factor of 10. Do the math to figure out why I use mp3 instead of shn or ape or flac or whatever.

  14. Charlie:
    SHN doesn’t play on iPod. For an Apple guy on the go, that’s plenty good enough reason. And to give you a quick dipshit check, just because you convert a file doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. If it’s so important to maintain fidelity you can simply not delete the original SHN and keep the MP3 on your portable player/laptop/etc.

  15. Matthew Crayton  |   Posted on Jul 8th, 2005

    People want to convert shn to mp3 because shn sucks they take up massive amounts of disk space they are difficult to listen to and burn to cds and are a general pain in the ass. Traders are the whole problem with sharing music they hoard their collections only accepting trades and then bitch and moan about converting shn to mp3s or converting anything to mp3s get a damn life.

  16. bryan  |   Posted on Jul 21st, 2005

    so there is no one! app. that will do .shn to .mp3 for windows??????????????

  17. Bjorn  |   Posted on Jul 25th, 2005

    mkw is available from eTree and works for windows. Good luck!

  18. bregnar  |   Posted on Aug 4th, 2005

    I can’t for the life of me get shn files to play on my computer, despite the fact that I have an shn plugin. Nor can I burn it to disc because Roxio does not recognize shn as an audio file. Please help, I am completely lost and can’t figure this out. I’ve figured out every other file type other than this one.

  19. robgig  |   Posted on Sep 3rd, 2005

    yeah i just use winamp for my shn needs. you can download a plugin that reads shn files. from there u can go to sound output, mp3 output, wav output, or even output it directly to your burner. i recommend winamp 100%

    p.s. does anyone know if itunes is going to make a shn plugin?? that would make my life so very easy…

  20. i can’t get the etree one to download, just issues on my computer, nothing happens when i try.

    is there anything else for windows?

  21. hi. i am unable to get the etree one to work as well.

    a box pops up saying “mkvSFX has unpacked the Setup files to your TEMP folder and launced Setup. Once Setup completes, click OK to remove the Setup files from your TEMP folder.”

    the problem with this is, setup never launches.
    does anyone know how to fix this and get the program working?

  22. joe go back to where you specifed the download of the setup files, for me it was c/Program Files, then open the file that says something like menu.exe. And the program starts.

  23. lauren  |   Posted on Jan 14th, 2007

    Switch is easy and free for windows

    http://www.nch.com.au/switch/

  24. all the suggestions above are great, but what about tags? i wouldn’t mind 2-step conversion if i at least got intact tags. any help?

  25. MARCELO  |   Posted on Nov 16th, 2007

    GREAT THANKS!!!!!

  26. Deyan  |   Posted on May 17th, 2008

    ok

  27. Barefoot768  |   Posted on Feb 17th, 2010

    Converting to mp3 does take away from the quality, however to most ears you would never be able to tell the difference. Tapers and musicians will be able to tell a difference between flac shn and mp3. Normal average Joes will not and therefore will always bitch about tapers being elitists. I thank all tapers for what they do they give up there time and a good close spot to tape a show for all of us to enjoy after the show or who may have missed the show. As to taking up space its no problem hard drives are cheaper than they used to be and therefore just get a new one. If you cant afford a real external buy an internal for the fraction of the price and a 5 dollar external case put it together and wow you now have an external at the fraction of the price. Thanks again tapers keep the grooves flowing

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