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Windows Media Player: How do I Play Ogg and FLAC Files in WMP? | Windows | Tech-Recipes

Started by qdideas · 9 months ago

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18 comments

  • Presence

    8 months ago

    Help Us All
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  • hans

    8 months ago

    That's a rediculous advice you're given.
    Who in his right mind would want to transcode a lossless file to lossy.
    Best advice would be to install a better player than WMP, something like foobar2000.
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  • boattown

    4 months ago

    You Can Decode Flac files to wave files using flac frontend or TLH(traders little helper). Wave files are decompressed and lossless.
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  • Sanjay Shelat

    4 months ago

    Thanks man - THIS WORKS just fine. Easy quick install, job done. Good work!
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  • IT Guy

    4 months ago

    Well I must be out of my mind. I cant stand flamers and that is a ridiculous comment!

    "Who in his right mind would want to transcode a lossless file to lossy.
    Best advice would be to install a better player than WMP, something like foobar2000."

    Your MP3 player decodes FLAC? And WMP is an excellent player.
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  • Andrew

    3 weeks ago

    Both of my MP3 players decode FLAC and OGG (which sounds better at similar bitrates.) His comment was not ridiculous at all. There is no excuse for having a mp3 on your home machine when you could have a FLAC (even if you convert elsewhere), or for WMP for not supporting it.
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  • Minnor

    7 months ago

    foobar2000!!!
    why waste time converting to another format to play it on windows media player? i switched from WMP to foobar months ago, little tweeks here and there, works like a charm!
    once you get used to it, you NEVER ever want to go back to WMP!
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  • Will

    7 months ago

    Codec works a treat!
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  • VideoGeek

    7 months ago

    There are reasons to use Windows Media, flawed as it may be. For example, my (now broken) mp3 player synced with WMP so I had to use it to put music on there. And if I have to have music on WMP for my mp3, what's the point in having another program entirely wasting space on my hard drive?
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  • wosscoe

    7 months ago

    Installed the codecs as in first option and it all works well. had to change the file association so WMP was default player, but it decodes and plays great. thank mate, good advise.

    dont worry about hans, he sounds abit different,,,, you advise worked......

    seeya
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  • kevin

    6 months ago

    use mediamonkey, it plays al formats and is free too!!!!
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  • Marc Gibson

    6 months ago

    zoom player is also free and plays flac files effortlessly (and every other file too)
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  • Matt

    4 months ago

    Thanks!
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  • chrisgrech21

    3 months ago

    Thanks works GR8, easy to install and does what it says on the tin.
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  • unnamed

    2 months ago

    Why waste time with windows media player when VLC media player can play all file formats and DVDs for free?

    Download here: www.videolan.org/vlc/
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  • yoyo

    1 month ago

    My mp4 player can't handle FLAC-files, so I wanna convert them. But that dBpowerAMP doesn't work, I can only convert .cda, mpg, mpeg, mpa, mpga, mpx, mp1, mp2, m2a, mp3 and wav. Could someone pleas help me :$ ?
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  • Aleksandra

    1 month ago

    Thank you, WMP with codecs you gave link to, opens .flac files now! Good advice.
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  • thomasz

    3 weeks ago

    when i have a rest, I always enjoy listening to music. Thanks for two guidings. I try to do that. Any suggestions. Give us. Nice days
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