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Presence · 1 year ago

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hans · 1 year 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.

boattown · 9 months ago

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

Sanjay Shelat · 8 months ago

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

IT Guy · 8 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.

Andrew · 4 months 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.

shawnz · 3 months ago

WMA has a lossless mode.

Connor McBrine-Ellis · 1 week ago

but WMA is proprietary and nobody uses it

Minnor · 12 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!

Will · 12 months ago

Codec works a treat!

VideoGeek · 11 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?

Connor McBrine-Ellis · 1 week ago

WMP is awesome software - it is well laid out and syncs to almost all mediaplayers with the exception of iPods because they suck

wosscoe · 11 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

kevin · 10 months ago

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

Marc Gibson · 10 months ago

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

Matt · 8 months ago

Thanks!

chrisgrech21 · 7 months ago

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

unnamed · 6 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/

Connor McBrine-Ellis · 1 week ago

I use VLC all the time for my video files because I don't have TOO many video files, and because I use playlist, but it doesn't support libraries and WMP has a nice layout and ways to find and enjoy your music more.

Shah · 19 minutes ago

vlc sux when it comes to audio quality, and the whole point of lookin for flac i assume is wanting higher quality.

yoyo · 5 months 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 :$ ?

Aleksandra · 5 months ago

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

thomasz · 5 months 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

arthur2020 · 4 months ago

It worked for me. I can now play ogg & FLAC files with WMP. Many thanks!

agimbits · 1 month ago

Thank you very much!
I was looking for this for some time=)

regards,
Anna

Name · 1 month ago

Thanks for the easy & quick instructions! Works great now in WMP.

Scrampy · 1 month ago

Thanks ! worked like a charm. (codecs that is)

Jason · 1 week ago

If you are using windows 7 64-bit or vista 64-bit you need the updated codecs from here: http://www.xiph.org/dshow/pmwiki.php/Main/Downl...

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