How to play FLAC audio files in Windows Media Player

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Windows Media Player is bundled by default in every Windows installation. While not the most beautiful or feature-filled audio player, it has the obvious benefit of being bundled with Windows. Recent versions of Windows Media Player also includes a lot more functionality.

Unfortunately, Windows Media Player does not have FLAC audio support by default. FLAC is one of the most popular lossless audio formats available. FLAC is an abbreviation of Free Lossless Audio Codec. Lossless implies that no quality is lost while converting to FLAC format.

Play FLAC in Windows Media Player

FLAC Support Plugin for Windows Media player can, among many other features, support FLAC files on Windows Media Player. Note that it requires Windows Media Player 10 to work.

If you use Windows Media Player 11, see this method to add FLAC support (slightly longer and more difficult).

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Discussion

  1. Here is another option:
    free-codecs.com/Filters_for_Ogg_Vorbis_Speex_Theora_and_FLAC_download.htm

    Works with all media players, (Winamp already has FLAC support) but doesn’t work with Nero. If you want to burn/listen FLAC in Nero, you can download it here:
    4shared.com/file/141794287/2bedbf46/nero_audio_plugins_lamemp3_aac_ape_asf_flac_lpac_mpc_ofr_ogg_real__shn_spx_pt_wp.html
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  2. I use KLM codec and it plays almost every format as it is bundled with all those codecs. may be that will be a good choice.

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