Be sure when prompted you select the option to “Remove from Library only” so you don’t lose all your songs! There is also and option under “Tools > Options > Library Tab” that should be unchecked before clearing your library inside of WMP. The most effective way to clear your WMP libraries is to remove your albums from inside WMP by selecting them and pressing delete. If you have already established your WMP Music Library it may be necessary to clear your Music Library before this fix will take effect. Changes made to your Music Library in WMP will be reflected in Media Center and it provides a relatively simple GUI for manipulating your files.
#Media player for flac files windows
The most convenient way to manage your Music Library in Media Center is through Windows Media Player 12. Wav (a copy of the CD files, not compressed) and Apple’s proprietary formats that iPods play. But Winamp makes you pay for ripping, Windows Media Player does only mp3 and Windows Media formats, and iTunes only does mp3. Once you have the proper codecs installed it’s time to get them to show up in the Music Library. Windows Media Player and iTunes (and I think Winamp) use CDDB, a commercial and slightly more reliable source for tags. The files linked above are the latest versions available at the time of this post but you should check Xiph’s page to check for updated versions. Codecs for both 圆4 and x86 versions of windows can be found at Xiph’s open source site. There is a cure for this minor omission though so no worries.įirst, as always, we have to make sure we have the proper codecs for windows to play back these files.
Presently Media Center (and Windows Media Player 12) doesn’t include native file support for a number of lossless audio codecs including FLAC, OGG, and basically anything other than Microsoft’s own WMA files.