James Delahunty
21 Mar 2008 10:50
Due to unprecedented interest in a Convert FLAC to MP3 guide posted on AfterDawn last year that has since grown, we decided to add an article on how to play FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) on your computer. While we usually stick to video playback guides, we noticed that many users may have been converting to MP3 out of a perceived necessity, but since FLAC is lossless we thought we would save those users from reducing their audio quality.
The article covers simple methods to play FLAC including built-in support for VLC & Foobar 2000, but more importantly covered configurations to get FLAC audio playing on DirectShow-based players like Media Player Classic and Windows Media Player, the latter which also shows how to add support for FLAC audio tags in the Media Library.
How to play FLAC files:
https://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/how_to_play_flac_files.cfm
It would be a good article for our forum users to show to anybody asking about FLAC, as it is only a few steps to setup your software to be capable of playing FLAC audio just like MP3. We have received an incredible response for the multimedia playback instructions we have offered so far. Thank you very much for the positive and critical feedback over the past months and to the users who have sent readers toward them.
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