How to play FLAC file with Windows Media Player 12

Anonymous
2009-12-30T20:15:31+00:00

Is there any way to play Flac files with Windows Media Player 12?  A hefty percentage of my music library is FLAC. 

Thanks!

Lloyd

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Anonymous
2010-01-05T15:56:49+00:00

Hello L Goldfine,

Thank you for your inquiry.

The Flac extension is not a supported file type of Windows Media Player. You may however user your favorite search engine to search for a solution that may convert the file to a Windows Media Player supported file type.

For more information on Windows Media Player supported file types you may also view the following link: 

Information about the Multimedia file types that Windows Media Player supports

I hope this information is helpful.

Thank you,

Mary

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-08-14T23:41:23+00:00

    Just to confirm, there is now indeed native FLAC support in Windows 10.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-08-10T14:53:12+00:00

    You may be in 2015, but the post you were replying to with incredulousness is from 2010.  WMP is extensible by installing additional codecs to support other file formats, and Windows allows you to install other programs that support it.  These solutions have already been provided multiple times over in this thread.

    It's kind of ridiculous that people expect Windows to support everything they will ever want to do both natively and free, 6 years later after it's release.  But, lo and behold, your prayers have been answered as you can upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7/8/8.1 for free today, which I read has system wide FLAC support.

    Edit: I should note that I have *not* yet tried to play FLAC on my Win10 machine, so cannot 100% confirm this at the moment.  Maybe I'll try tonight.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-08-03T11:52:49+00:00

    Use WAVE.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-06-09T15:55:52+00:00

    Hello L Goldfine,

    Thank you for your inquiry.

    The Flac extension is not a supported file type of Windows Media Player. You may however user your favorite search engine to search for a solution that may convert the file to a Windows Media Player supported file type.

    For more information on Windows Media Player supported file types you may also view the following link: 

    Information about the Multimedia file types that Windows Media Player supports

    I hope this information is helpful.

    Thank you,

    Mary

    Microsoft Answers Support Engineer

    Visit our Microsoft Answers Feedback Forum and let us know what you think.

    Sorry, but we are in 2015! I know you are just telling us how it goes, but as a feedback to pass on - this is unacceptable! 

    Even the most simple media programs have a FLAC add-on of some sort.

    Disappointing!

    Thank you.

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