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
    2013-09-11T10:31:27+00:00

    Perfect :) Works great on my WMP on Windows 8 - 64 Bit.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-07-28T22:35:56+00:00

    I don't know what happened, I didn't do anything or change anything or install any plugin. I practically did nothing. I was just reading this forum, remembered I had a flac and tried to play it in WMP. I am on windows 8 if that makes any difference. I'm on 12.0.9200.16578. When I opened the file, it asked me in which program it wanted me to open, I selected windows media player and voila, it started playing. I installed the Media Player classic codec sometime back not sure if that helps. I'm happy :)

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-07-28T21:33:22+00:00

    I just found this by searching as I wanted to play FLAC files on WMP too.

    Instead of messing about trying to make it play them by manually installing codecs, I'm just going to use VLC Player.

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