Windows 7: Windows can't read FLAC tags

I have several music files in flac format, and I can open them in progmras like Mp3tag, and they see the flac tags like artist, title..etc. and I can modify them as well.



Can I add anything to windows shell to make explorer and wmp able to read these tags? (I have flac codec installed and I can play them in wmp, but it only shows the filesnames)

I've installed somthing like this, but still nothing:
BM-productions

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That was... completely irrelevant.

As far as the windows shell goes (I assume you mean reading tags in Windows Explorer), no.
As for WMP12, I thought it could read FLAC tags by default; unless they are in another format WMP can't recognize; not sure as I don't use the FLAC format.

After installing WMP Tag Plus, existing FLAC files in WMP's library need to be re-added for their tags to show up. Did you do this?

To re-add the FLAC files to the library, select them, right-click, select Delete, Delete from library only, and click OK. Then go to Tools - Advanced and select Restore deleted library items.

Man You ROCK, thank you very much it works like a charm!!

You're welcome WMP Tag Plus will only add FLAC tag support to WMP. To get FLAC tags in Explorer too, you will need a FLAC property handler. Such a property handler seems to be included in the Media Foundation FLAC Codec, but note that I haven't tried this myself yet.

I've just made that app work, now explorer can read flac tags thanks again

What program are you talking about? We need a property handler for flac. DOes your program have one? Media Foundation FLAC Codec did not do it for me.

Um, I had a clean install since then (lol)
I am installing wmp tag plus right now, you can find the link in post #1

edit: if you have it installed, open WMP and click organize > apply media info changes
Now wmp should read your tags.

Cheers

What I need is for *Explorer* to read and write flac tags. WMP Tag won't do it, neither will Media Foundation FLAC Codec, and the way dbPowerAmp does it, in my opinion, is no good - adding two tabs to the Explorer Properties dialog when you can do it right within the Properties>Details tab with mp3. Also, dbPowerAmp's Install program looks like it was programmed with a kit. Very amateurish.

If Microsoft could figure a way to make money off flac, I'm sure they'd implement it right away. But the Party Line is that flac is a "minority" format.

Maybe somebody out there can program a properties handler worthy of the name; I sure as hell can't and dbPowerAmp botched it.