Flac Codecs

Does anybody on this fine forum know how to enable my use of the flac format? Been to the various places that Iv'e been pointed towards when both trying to open in explorer and also media player and Iv'e had no joy thus far. Has anybody had any success in getting the said format to play. your help would be greatly appreciated.


p.s I wish not to change from WMP12 so comments on get this media player and that media player will fall on deaf ears (and eyes).

I install this.

FLAC - download

I don't know about wmp however, because I don't use that often at all.

It also has this, here...

http://flac.sourceforge.net/faq.html...__software_wmp

but the link seems to be broken here.

Thanks mate. It is supposed to play in wmp (dont know about 12) and even though I have installed it is still not recognized in explorer as any kind of format.

RST101 said:

Does anybody on this fine forum know how to enable my use of the flac format? Been to the various places that Iv'e been pointed towards when both trying to open in explorer and also media player and Iv'e had no joy thus far. Has anybody had any success in getting the said format to play. your help would be greatly appreciated.


p.s I wish not to change from WMP12 so comments on get this media player and that media player will fall on deaf ears (and eyes).

Hi Guy

I'm a BIG supporter of FLAC -- I HATE compressed mp3 music.

1) install NERO mega plugin pack -- this will allow you to create "Virtual" or real Audio CD's directly from FLAC files.

2) Winamp or other similar sofware will rip CD's etc directly to FLAC (and play FLAC directly).

3) Mount the virtual CD and then use whatever music software you need to copy to IPOD (or other music device -- I still use a Minidisc player -- beats the shXT out of IPODS even though it's for old Dinosaurs like me.

If you can't find th NERO mega plugin pack PM me and I'll send it to you --works fine on W7 X-64 (even build 7068).

However this link should work

Chose the Romanian mirror rather than the US one -- no DRM probs.


http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Codec-Packs-Video-Codecs/Nero-Mega-Plugin-Pack.shtml


Added -- Winamp etc play FLAC direcly -- and if you use Audio streaming such as Squeezebox etc. these devices will also play flac directly.

BTW once you've ripped FLAC to a virtual Audio CD ( or compiled your own CD from FLAC) all the standard CD players will play the music. It's always better to keep music UNCOMPRESSED then you can do anything you like with it. FLAC whilst compressed is LOSSLESS.

P me if you need more help on FLAC.

cheers
jimbo

Will it work even without having Nero installed. I hate Nero as it is just bloatware in my opinion. Thanks for the response anyway jimbo. I shall look around google for said product if I don't need Nero installed.

winamp will play flac codecs. I think Mediamonkey also wil play flac codecs and VLC should also play flac codecs.

Cheers
jimbo

personally i use foobar2000 simply download add files then right click to convert to mp3 or just play in foobar as flac format

There's loads of decent apps including foobar. You are literally spoilt for choice.

I use Winamp simply because I'm used to it and it rips to FLAC really fast and the GUI is simple and intuitive.

Unlike MP3 compression (or other LOSSY compression) FLAC is LOSSLESS so you don't have to worry about the quality of encoding -- all MP3's BTW are NOT created equal even at the same level of compression so the quality of the encoder IS important. In this case with FLAC any encoder will do the job properly -- the encoding although compressed is 100% LOSSLESS.

Enc image shot

(works in W7 X-64 no probs).

cheers
jimbo