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Originally Posted by mfsljunkie

I really don't know why there isn't a gstreamer plugin for Shorten.

well.

• the "official" reference decoder implementation is pretty much un(re)usable.
• nobody feels like reimplementing it to create a sane decoder
• the foobar plugin is actually based on a somewhat sane independent decoder implementation, but the foo_shn devs are lazy bastards and mostly uninterested in Linux, so they're not going to make a gstreamer plugin anytime soon either (trust me on this one. I know.)

That should cover it..

Originally Posted by Thwumpt

Uh, where was I, oh yeah, shns suck. LOL.

Yes it does.

Instead of going into a lengthy and unnecessarily technical rant on why that's the case, let me just reiterate: Trust me, it sucks.

Originally Posted by Five

I've never heard anybody say FLAC is bad... everybody agrees it's the best.

I disagree. It's not. WavPack is better.