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
    2014-09-05T16:04:08+00:00

    leefrost, im sorry.

    im new to the forums and did not know there was a seperate thread for vista.

    i will take the blame for that.

    have a wonderful day

    No problem.

    I am fairly new here myself and I am still coming to grips with this forum's peculiarities : )

    I am sorry for wasting your time and I hope you have better luck in the Vista forum.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-09-12T23:27:47+00:00

    Nice one.. sorted in about 20 seconds..

    As usual the Microsoft support engineers are more than useless! :-)

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-11-06T12:48:30+00:00

    This worked for me as well - thx. :-)

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-11-13T15:40:27+00:00

    Joe Bleau's suggestion really works.

    You simply need to install Xiph's Open Codecs here: http://xiph.org/dshow/downloads/

    Thank you Joe. Shame to Microsoft.

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