DISQUS

Presence · 1 year ago

Help Us All

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 · 10 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 · 10 months ago

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

IT Guy · 10 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 · 6 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 · 4 months ago

WMA has a lossless mode.

Connor McBrine-Ellis · 1 month ago

but WMA is proprietary and nobody uses it

Minnor · 1 year 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!

hdb · 1 month ago

What 'little tweaks'. Sounds like hour wasted to me ....

Will · 1 year ago

Codec works a treat!

VideoGeek · 1 year 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 month 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 · 1 year 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 · 1 year ago

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

Marc Gibson · 1 year ago

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

Matt · 10 months ago

Thanks!

chrisgrech21 · 9 months ago

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

unnamed · 8 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 month 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 · 1 month ago

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

hdb · 1 month ago

I downloaded vlc to play flac it worked for a while but no plays with no sound even though the volume level is up.

I have done a google search and I am not the only one with this problem although nobody offers a solution.

yoyo · 6 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 · 6 months ago

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

thomasz · 6 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 · 5 months ago

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

agimbits · 3 months ago

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

regards,
Anna

Name · 3 months ago

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

Scrampy · 2 months ago

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

Jason · 1 month 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...

Dex Luther · 1 month ago

The sad truth is that FLAC is a needless waste of space. Most people can't even hear the difference between a FLAC and MP3 yet they insist on using bloated FLAC files just because people say it's better.

Nothing but sheep.

I keep two files on my MP3 player just to prove this point whenever someone brings up the FLAC topic. Two copies of the same song. One FLAC the other MP3. I play them both for the 'FLACists', and most of them can't even tell the difference. The ones that do just get lucky guessing.

The truth is that even with an expensive sound system (I have JM Labs speakers just to give you a little idea) there's no real audible difference. If there is it's because you're an idiot listening to 192kbit MP3's.

I only get FLAC when there's no other choice. Otherwise it's all 320kbit MP3 and there's absolutely no audible difference at all.

baxterch · 1 month ago

I'm sorry Dex,

But you are obviously frustrated by something, either youth or a lack of disk space, but I ask you this? Why would you even bother to bother what other people do? It is not your disk space, and not your time... True, most wont tell the difference, but many can and do... I am an audiophile and have audiophile quality equipment and I can hear the difference clear as day...

I'm not a sheep (remember, baa-aa-aa means no), I just like to hear the music, and ALL the music, not sound that mimics the music because of the lopped off highs and flooded lows...

Micky · 1 week ago

The problem with using a codec for flac files to play on WMP is that you still can't add Flac files to your WMP Library.

Breakfast Cookies · 5 days ago

All these comments, and this is pretty much the first useful one.