Shorten on its way Out?

Since we archive with Shorten this is interesting to me. Not interesting enough that I rabidly follow the discussion, but Slashdot has an discussion on Phish converting their music to FLAC. Naturally a lot of the /. community misses the point, but there’s some good info in there. Technologies come and go, mostly, but I don’t think it’s a big enough improvement to convert from shorten.