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Topic: Windows Media Player 11 <-> FLAC (Read 6575 times) previous topic - next topic
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Windows Media Player 11 <-> FLAC

Well The only good news is this
Flac Tag Support Plugin for Windows Media Player v 1.1
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Now when you throw flacs into the library , each flac will go to its artist just like mp3s
(Off course that plus installing any flac decoder (Like Mad Flac) or codec pack (Like K-Lite Mega Codec)to enable WMP11 to run them in the first place)

Now the Problems i m Havin , would really appreciate any help

With The Seek Bar
- In Case of Installing Any Flac Decoder or Codec Other Than The Next 3
Immediate Crash of windows media player once you try to seek/skip during a song
- In Case of Installing K-Lite Mega Codec 4.62 , MadFlac 1.8 , CoreFLACDecoder 0.4
(While Playing a Flac from the media player library) : clicking in the middle (or where ever) in the seek bar to skip during a song causes the song to restart from the beginning + the seek bar doesn't move (also it doesn't detect the duration of the song at the bottom of wmp)
(While Playing a Flac from windows explorer/just double clicking any flac even if it was in the library) : you can seek/skip to any part you want in the song but still the seek bar doesn't move from the position you moved it to (now it detects the duration of the song and place it in its place : which gotta do something about it being able to seek now , as it knows the lenth of the song , where to go and stuff)

In other words if i m in the middle of a song in my library and want to skip to the end (..cough Floyd .. Echoes) , I have to right click the song in the library -> open file location -> double click / play the song again from explorer , then skip to the end (which doesn't make any sense to me , i mean if it can do it , why wont it do it in the library any ways !)

With The Plugin
Although the favor that the Tag Support Plugin did for us , after installing it (or when ever its enabled)
- wmp crashes when ever i insert a movie / concert dvd-r
- every single song played using wmp is automatically added to the library when the plugin is enabled even though i ve unchecked the "Add Media Files To Library When Played" in the wmp options

Any Idea patch plugin or codec you know of that would avoid any of these problems , please help
thanks in advance

Windows Media Player 11 <-> FLAC

Reply #1 –
Good luck, FLAC playback in WMP has been a crapshoot for years now thanks to the lack of a proper(ly working) DirectShow filter for FLAC and no native support on the WMP end.
EAC>1)fb2k>LAME3.99 -V 0 --vbr-new>WMP12 2)MAC-Extra High