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
    2014-01-01T17:10:59+00:00

    I agree with Jonathan!

    Yep, me too. I have spent some weeks (and some ££) trying to fix this - I have used the xiph codecs and the WMP Tag Plus app as mentioned above and can now get WMP 12 to play and list flacs. Hooray. But it will not transcode those onto USB stick - even with the correct settings, it still transfers the files as flacs and not (like it does with WMA Lossless) convert them for use on your other devices (eg my car stereo needs MP3 or WMA on USB).

    It's diabolical that the most common lossless filetype is not natively supported by WMP. And don't tell me to use WMA Lossless because out of the 4 devices I want to use (TV media player, Marantz hi-fi, JVC car stereo and Windows Phone), three of them don't play WMA Lossless.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-01-15T00:58:46+00:00

    Anyone tried this: http://www.mediaplayercodecpack.com?

    Until now is working fine for me (Win7-64 and WMP 12)

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-01-22T05:56:36+00:00

    For those searching for WMP FLAC support try the XIPH.ORG site.

    http://www.xiph.org/dshow/

    Happy Listening!

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-03-07T21:13:02+00:00

    For those searching for WMP FLAC support try the XIPH.ORG site.

    http://www.xiph.org/dshow/

    Happy Listening!

    Yep, this worked!

    I love open source - you can compile it yourself and inspect the source first to see if there are any spy/mal ware.

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