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xmms-shn provides playback support for shorten (.shn) files in
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XMMS. Real-time seeking support is provided for .shn files that
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have accompanying seek tables generated by shorten 3.x. Otherwise,
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seeking is not supported.
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Wayne Stielau has extended shorten 2.3 to support the creation of
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seek tables. Seek tables are simply descriptions of the internal
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state of the shorten algorithm at specific points in the decompression.
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This allows a modified shorten decoder to restore the decoder state
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of the shorten algorithm for a point at (or very close to) the
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desired seek point.
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The current implementation creates a seek table entry once every
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25600 samples. For 'CD-quality' WAVE data (44100 samples/sec),
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this provides a granularity of 1 seek table entry per 25600/44100
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= 0.58 seconds, more than what is needed by either XMMS or WinAmp.
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WWW: http://www.etree.org/shnutils/xmms-shn/
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