Red Mosquito • View topic - Shn to Flac

datfly · **Joined:** Sat Nov 06, 2004 12:15 am **Posts:** 104

I know this is a really anal post but, I have the complete original 2000 & 2003 tours in Shn that were traded with Md5 files and were....
Official release > CDex Version 1.40 Beta 9 > WAV > mkwACT V0.97 Beta 1 > shn [seek tables appended]

I have since received them in Flac form convertred by Leehro from Jan this year and I am finding it hard to hit the delete button on the whole complete Shn tours.........storage is cheap & I have the room so I ask Keep it or Delete it?

Thanks,
Datfly

PS: How many versions are in the trading circles as complete sets and are there any with the songs titled?

cutuphalfdead · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2011 3:57 pm

If they're the same source and the FLACs were done error free then get rid of those archaic SHNs. The less of them in circulation the better.

Bee Girl · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2011 5:03 pm

I agree with chud.

cutuphalfdead · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2011 5:07 pm

Leehro · **Posted:** Wed Nov 16, 2011 3:15 am

Some background on those FLACs - The SHNs were going around on some HD B+P's. My friend Bryan got a HD B+P from emanon here, it had all the 2000 & 2003 SHNs (some were FLACs but not many). I borrowed the HD, sifted through the stuff and merged it with my collection. I wrote a script to convert all those SHNs to FLAC, update the txt files and then deleted the SHNs*.

I made sure all the SHNs passed MD5 before converting to FLAC, then made sure all the FLACs verified after converting - so I think you can trust them as well as the SHNs anyways.

As for a collection with track titles and other metadata - I thought about that, but usually when I listen to a show I don't like to look at the setlist while it's playing.

*I own all the CDs, so having them in FLAC is mostly for convenience.

emanon · **Posted:** Wed Nov 16, 2011 11:44 am

nice...i need to update my collection from SHN to FLAC one of these days.

cutuphalfdead · **Posted:** Wed Nov 16, 2011 11:45 am

I've been converting as I listen. It's a slow, arduous process.

paintedbynumbers · **Joined:** Sat Aug 29, 2009 1:34 am **Posts:** 18

what is a good program to convert shn to flac or mp3 even? Thanks for the help.

cutuphalfdead · **Posted:** Mon Nov 28, 2011 12:33 am

dbPowerAmp is my conversion software of choice. You can convert a bunch of them at one time easily. If you have a bunch of files to convert in different folders you can use their Batch Converter and get them all done at once.

oasisfan35 · **Posted:** Mon Nov 28, 2011 2:13 am

cutuphalfdead wrote:

I've been converting as I listen. It's a slow, arduous process.

If the SHNs have seektables do you still convert? And if so, is it just for the tagging? Curious is all, by the way.

cutuphalfdead · **Posted:** Mon Nov 28, 2011 3:32 am

oasisfan35 wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

I've been converting as I listen. It's a slow, arduous process.

If the SHNs have seektables do you still convert? And if so, is it just for the tagging? Curious is all, by the way.

I have no idea what a seektable is.

oasisfan35 · **Posted:** Mon Nov 28, 2011 12:39 pm

cutuphalfdead wrote:

oasisfan35 wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

I've been converting as I listen. It's a slow, arduous process.

If the SHNs have seektables do you still convert? And if so, is it just for the tagging? Curious is all, by the way.

I have no idea what a seektable is.

IIRC it is an additional file that makes the SHN seekable (skip to any point), which was always one of the biggest complaints of the file type. I actually have to check etree to see if that is true.

On topic, I have kept the original SHNs as I have no real need to convert and reburn/archive.

Cameronia · **Posted:** Sat Dec 03, 2011 10:14 pm

SHN is SHT

Shn to Flac - Keep the Shns?

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