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Thumbnails for FLAC in Windows Explorer

My music folder consists of 1 FLAC file with embedded cue sheet per album and I'd like to have album art thumbnails. I've seen them work for M4A and MP3, but not Flac.
Any Ideas?

Thumbnails for FLAC in Windows Explorer

Reply #1 –
Unfortunately neither Windows 7 natively handles .flac files and as far as i know there isn't any software that could add this feature. We gotta hope that Microsoft adds native support with the next version of Windows but i don't think that will come,even though it's the most diffused lossless codec out there. Sending feedback about this to Microsoft is not a bad idea however,they are finally opening up a lot to people's feedback. It's worth trying to,at least. If HD-AAC lossless gets released, I'm pretty sure its support will be native and universal,as a standard, that's how market goes with these kind of things.

Thumbnails for FLAC in Windows Explorer

Reply #2 –
There are plugin's enabling playing FLAC and tagging FLAC in WMP.
It is not possible to use WMP to rip to FLAC.
To play FLAC you need a Directshow Filter :

http://www.dsp-worx.de/?n=15
http://www.xiph.org/dshow/
http://www.pristineclassical.com/More/WMP-FLAC.html (MadFlac, works with 24/96 kHz)
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/CoreFL...der_Encoder.htm

To tag FLAC files using WMP you need:
WMP Tag Support Extender.
See: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?ti...g-in_properties

WMP Tag Plus
WMP Tag Plus is a free Windows Media Player plug-in that adds support for reading and writing tags (metadata) of MPEG4, FLAC, Vorbis and WavPack files.



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Thumbnails for FLAC in Windows Explorer

Reply #3 –
Quote from: Larson on
Unfortunately neither Windows 7 natively handles .flac files and as far as i know there isn't any software that could add this feature. We gotta hope that Microsoft adds native support with the next version of Windows but i don't think that will come,even though it's the most diffused lossless codec out there. Sending feedback about this to Microsoft is not a bad idea however,they are finally opening up a lot to people's feedback. It's worth trying to,at least. If HD-AAC lossless gets released, I'm pretty sure its support will be native and universal,as a standard, that's how market goes with these kind of things.

I'll give it a try, but I doubt FLAC support is high on their priority list.

Quote from: Roseval on
There are plugin's enabling playing FLAC and tagging FLAC in WMP.
It is not possible to use WMP to rip to FLAC.
To play FLAC you need a Directshow Filter :

http://www.dsp-worx.de/?n=15
http://www.xiph.org/dshow/
http://www.pristineclassical.com/More/WMP-FLAC.html (MadFlac, works with 24/96 kHz)
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/CoreFL...der_Encoder.htm

To tag FLAC files using WMP you need:
WMP Tag Support Extender.
See: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?ti...g-in_properties

WMP Tag Plus
WMP Tag Plus is a free Windows Media Player plug-in that adds support for reading and writing tags (metadata) of MPEG4, FLAC, Vorbis and WavPack files.



Will this give me thumbnails in my music folder? If it's just for playing the files, I'm pretty happy with Foobar.

Thumbnails for FLAC in Windows Explorer

Reply #4 –
No, that'd require an add-on/hack of Windows Explorer, and a quick Google for "Windows Explorer FLAC thumbnail" found only a couple of threads suggesting no such thing exists.

Thumbnails for FLAC in Windows Explorer

Reply #5 –
Quote from: dv1989 on
No, that'd require an add-on/hack of Windows Explorer, and a quick Google for "Windows Explorer FLAC thumbnail" found only a couple of threads suggesting no such thing exists.

I did the same thing and got the same result. I found one for .mkv thumbnails a while ago and held out hope that there was one for FLAC. Looks like I'm out of luck.

Thumbnails for FLAC in Windows Explorer

Reply #6 –
unbelievable but true, the new dbpoweramp r14 beta gives flac (as well APE and other audio formats which were unsupported) cover art thumbnail in Windows just like a normal mp3 or AAC ect!

http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=20303

Thumbnails for FLAC in Windows Explorer

Reply #7 –
Quote from: Larson on
unbelievable but true, the new dbpoweramp r14 beta gives flac (as well APE and other audio formats which were unsupported) cover art thumbnail in Windows just like a normal mp3 or AAC ect!

http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=20303
Probably via a shell extension, which dbpoweramp has always been nothing short of excellent at.
EAC>1)fb2k>LAME3.99 -V 0 --vbr-new>WMP12 2)MAC-Extra High

Thumbnails for FLAC in Windows Explorer

Reply #8 –
Yes is a shell extension, also allows the ID Tags of any format to be edited in Explorer down at the bottom. Plus (I see it as a Plus) it will take over Windows handling of mp3 tags (traditionally Windows has been weak on mp3 metadata handling, it has a bad rap so to speak).
 

Thumbnails for FLAC in Windows Explorer

Reply #9 –
Amazing job Spoon!  keep up the  good work