What is SHN / FLAC / APE?
As we have established, MP3 is not generally accepted by audio traders. However, uncompressed, or WAV files are huge and not practical for transferring over the internet. This is where Lossless Compression comes in. Lossless compresses the raw WAV file so no quality is lost. The files are stored as data rather than in audio which is something different than audio. With data, you know the file is corrupted when you play it. The file size is still large in comparison to an MP3, but no data is lost. Most people will keep copies of shows in lossless to ensure that when they need to burn a copy, they have the original version. There is a problem because most of the shows do not have originals, so there are people whom fill find the lowest, cleanest generation source and initially convert it into lossless so it is then archived. It is their determination whether to spread it around or not, but that would be considered the source to get. Do not convert any show to lossless that had and proble
