Winamp Plug-in's Folder In this folder, all of the audio Plug-ins for Winamp are stored. Either way, Navigate to C:\Program Files\Winamp\Plugins, as seen below. Now you need to go to the Winamp Plug-ins folder. Open the Plug-in with WinRAR (it is a ZIP file) and you will see one little in_shn.dll file.
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Shnamp Plugin Install WinRAR as instructed before and then download the ShnAmp Plugin for Winamp. Winamp Player Winamp will now load and it's appearance will be a result of what you chose as a skin. If you do not have File Associations for Winamp, you should also deselect Enable Winamp Agent. As for File Associations, if you already have a favorite player for Audio and Video files, you might want to deselect those options that are selected by default (except for Winamp Specific Files of course!). This is totally up to you (I chose Classic to remind me of the old days). Skins, File Associations and Feedback When you launch Winamp you will have to select a Skin. The installation is relatively standard for a Windows installation package.
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Select a Full installation when given the option, as seen in the picture. Winamp Installation Run the Winamp installer. This article exists because SHN is still in use, and there are fewer ways of playing it nowadays. Shorten is no longer under development, yet there are still plenty of SHN files around the Internet for people to download and listen to. Shorten is what is known as a lossless compression where the compressed audio can be completely restored to original quality later on. What are SHN files? SHN files contain compressed audio data. We will use Winamp to convert first to WAV and then Foobar 2000 and the LAME MP3 encoder to convert to MP3. The installation of WinAMP is briefly covered below the details of Shorten. Foobar 2000 -> This is the central application that will be used for the conversion to MP3. LAME MP3 Encoder -> You must download the LAME MP3 encoder. WinRAR -> You will need WinRAR to extract the SHN plug-in. ShnAmp -> This is a plug-in for Winamp to play Shorten audio files. Introduction & Requirements Winamp -> Download and Install Winamp, which we will use to convert to WAV first. Since MP3 is easily the most popular audio format, it seems like a logical choice for this conversion. These files are still widely available online despite Shorten being outdated by newer formats such as FLAC. These are compressed audio files (not lossy compression and therefore, much larger than MP3 for example). This guide covers converting SHN files into MP3 files.