Enabling FLAC playback in Windows Media Player

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Can I add a question about MusicBee in here too,which is,

if you have both 16 bit and 24 bit files will MusicBee play them both back as a matter of course or do you have to adjust the settings for the player or your set up every time?

Cheers
 
Just set it to 24 bit and leave it.
I leave my playback settings at 24/96 in the Windows playback devices panel and leave the two exclusive mode boxes ticked. I have used it at 24/192 but it can cause the audio driver to crash if your USB cable quality / length isn't up to it and mine obviously isn't.
In MusicBee under the player tab in preferences, I select output as WASAPI, which bypasses the windows mixer and that's it.
 
Thanks,

I have a few flac files now which I think are all 16 bit,of course now I see 24 bit files too so all good if playing both doesn't involve more input from me apart from hitting the play button.
 
rids57 said:
I didn't know that and I use Windows 10 :D

Still, I've been using MusicBee for a few years now and see zero reason to change that.
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I assumed that is what he was saying: Yep, just searched for it, and sure enough, W10 does indeed support FLAC right out of the box.

I read on another forum that the reason why WMP did not support FLAC was possibly because Microsoft may not be able to add open source codecs because of licencing implications for Windows. That was dated just after 8 came out.

If that was the reason why they did not include FLAC support in 7/8/8.1, then I wonder what has changed?

Unless of course, licencing had nothing to do with it, and it was what I first suspected when I first saw this thread; Microsoft just being their usual lame selves.

Microsoft's motto should be: We'll get there....eventually.
 
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