[dakanao]

So I just downloaded WMP Tag Plus with the Media Foundation FLAC Codec pack, and while the FLAC files do play fine in WMP, I can't playback most FLAC files in Windows Media Player, only on 4 songs. So how can I playback ALL the FLAC files?

 

[KT66]

WMP is not meant to play FLAC, why not just use Foobar?. it's free, sounds better
and plays anything,

 

[dakanao]

  WMP is not meant to play FLAC, why not just use Foobar?. it's free, sounds better
and plays anything,

Because I prefer the media library of WMP, it's way more easier than foobar. I tested it out, and it had a slightly warmer sound than WMP.

 

[Tuco1965]

If you want free you can try out Music Bee.  I used it up until purchasing JRMC.  

 

[L0SLobos]

  So I just downloaded WMP Tag Plus with the Media Foundation FLAC Codec pack, and while the FLAC files do play fine in WMP, I can't playback most FLAC files in Windows Media Player, only on 4 songs. So how can I playback ALL the FLAC files?

 
 

  Because I prefer the media library of WMP, it's way more easier than foobar. I tested it out, and it had a slightly warmer sound than WMP.

Nobody uses windows media player to play flac. This has been asked and answered countless times around the internet, if you'd bothered to do a search.

 

[dakanao]

   
 

Nobody uses windows media player to play flac. This has been asked and answered countless times around the internet, if you'd bothered to do a search.

Well, my problem has been solved. WMP DOES play FLAC now properly. 

 

[ProtegeManiac]

  Well, my problem has been solved. WMP DOES play FLAC now properly. 

 
Just a fair warning if you installed new CODECs - it caused a number of conflicts on my XP (and a Vista laptop before I got XP for it) computers. I can't remember anymore how exactly those happened, but basically it would conflict with iTunes and the video player I downloaded because WMP had no codecs (at the time, maybe it has now) for some video formats. I installed VLC and Foobar (later MediaMonkey; VLC's file browsing for music wasn't doing it for me) and removed the new CODECs, problem solved.

 

[dakanao]

   
Just a fair warning if you installed new CODECs - it caused a number of conflicts on my XP (and a Vista laptop before I got XP for it) computers. I can't remember anymore how exactly those happened, but basically it would conflict with iTunes and the video player I downloaded because WMP had no codecs (at the time, maybe it has now) for some video formats. I installed VLC and Foobar (later MediaMonkey; VLC's file browsing for music wasn't doing it for me) and removed the new CODECs, problem solved.

I don't notice anything weird with my other programs now I installed those codecs... What player had the best sound quality for your FLAC files?

 

[ProtegeManiac]

  I don't notice anything weird with my other programs now I installed those codecs...

 
Mine didn't start happening until about a few days in, but of course I wish you better luck

 

  What player had the best sound quality for your FLAC files?

 
Foobar was a little thin for me but that ultimately I just like MediaMonkey more for the UI. Songbird if I remember correctly had a slight bump somewhere; my Dad still uses this one on his computer at home. A few minutes on a good EQ plug-in would make any of them sound like the other though, given the minute tonal differences. Honestly I'm not even 110% sure there were differences or my brain is affected by the color and look of the UI.

 

[ab initio]

Because I prefer the media library of WMP, it's way more easier than foobar. I tested it out, and it had a slightly warmer sound than WMP.

If you are going to come to the sound science forum and assert that the playback of a lossless audio format sounds differently from different user interfaces, you had better provide evidence in the form of ABX results, or an explanation that describe/show how one of those flac decoders changes the audio information.

In the meantime, you are asking ill posed questions that have no answers.

Cheers