How to play FLAC file with Windows Media Player 12

Critical Bill, that is the answer you would expect from someone at Microsoft. If you look at the previous posts you will see the option that through 3 party software Window media player will play flac files and other lossless audio files.

I just want to thank Darney and leefrost for helping me with this codec issue, and helping me figure out what I needed to do to get my flac files  and mkv files to play in my Windows Media Player 11.

I had installed some audio codecs some time in the past, AC3 LAME codecs, and I guess they were getting the job done, but I needed specific codecs for my WMP 11.

Anyway, I thought I had already installed the K-LITE codec pak, but since I could not find it anywhere on my computer I went ahead and installed the 007Shark pak from the link provided by you guys, and I am very happy I did this.

Not only can I now play my .mkv movie files in my WMP 11, I can also play my FLAC... and any other audio or video files I have on my computer, on any of the media players I have on my computer.

I run Windows Vista, so I could not download the "Advanced" 007Shark pak, but the other pak for Vista is great, did not change any existing audio/video settings, and as I stated, now I can play anything on WMP and my other players. (VLC Media Player, Windows Media Player Classic, Winamp, etc.)

So, thanks very much for making this info available to us.

Peace!

razz

If you have not found out by now you can download K-lite codecs pack at:

http://filehippo.com/download\_klite\_codec\_pack/download/92a9d3f5829a622c608e5bc2aa5ed576/

or here: http://www.codecguide.com/download\_kl.htm

Or you can Download shark007- http://shark007.net/

Whichever one you choose, be sure to choose Windows Media Player for the player you want the codecs to use by default. You will see the option in the installation.

Critical Bill, that is the answer you would expect from someone at Microsoft. If you look at the previous posts you will see the option that through 3 party software Window media player will play flac files and other lossless audio files.

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,

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Microsoft Answers Support Engineer

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I have to agree with the person above. Why on earth would I convert a free lossless compression format to a lossy terrible sounding one like wma? MS, please stop with your standard " 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." as this NOT a viable option.