How to allow WMP 11 to play FLAC files

[gizbug]

Downloaded some flac codec, WMP 11 still wont play flac files. Any ideas on what to do?

 

[StopSign]

Download and install FFDShow. Set the audio decoder to handle FLAC.

 

[gizbug]

Ok.

 

[amddude]

Friends don't let friends use WMP.

Use media player classic my friend. http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

 

[gizbug]

For audio? thought that is a video player

 

[potato28]

Foobar2000 works like a charm for .flac files.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: amddude
Friends don't let friends use WMP.

Use media player classic my friend. http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

True, but who uses MPC for audio playback? Now MPC + Foobar FTW. Maybe throw in VLC.

 

[TheRyuu]

If you want right out of the box support, go download VLC.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Simple program, don't have to configure a thing (AFAIK).
Easy interface. No bulky WMP interface. Loads quick, what more could you want?

It also might be a good idea to check out media player classic with ffdshow for improved DVD watching
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=719041

And the CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack) has MPC and ffdshow among other things. And I hate the k-lite codec pack. Don't get it. I think it's a piece of sh!t.

 

[gizbug]

Again, downloading flac codec doesnt let WMP11 play flac. Any ideas?

 

[TheSpaceman]

I can't vouch for whether this is successful or not as I haven't got round to trying it yet, but I bookmarked this a while ago:

http://www.losslessaudioblog.com/wmpmce-lossless-guide/

 

[ManBearPig]

why do you guys say WMP is bad? i have the interfact of windows media player classic, its ugly and plain, and so is vlc.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Heen05
why do you guys say WMP is bad?

People here hate bloat, WMP got a bad rep a few versions back and has yet to recover. Nothing wrong with it now.

 

[TheRyuu]

Originally posted by: gizbug
Again, downloading flac codec doesnt let WMP11 play flac. Any ideas?

Download and install the latest ffdshow version here (it is the custom Leak version w/avisynth patches, personally I think it's better then the official builds).

Go to the audio decoder settings and set the FLAC codec to the libavcodec decoder.

It should then work

Otherwise, you can install MPC and that should use ffdshow for the decoder as well.
You can get the latest build of MPC here.

 

[wazzledoozle]

I use this codec pack to decode ogg/flac.

It works with WMP11 and 10.