Windows Media Player FLAC Not Playing? Here Are 2 Simple Methods

Although many people are used to playing media files with Windows built-in media player, WMP (Windows Media Player), the types of media files format it supports are limited. For example, if you want to play a huge of FLAC music library in Windows Media Player, unfortunately, the following error message will pop up: Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file. But don’t feel upset. There are always solutions to the problem. Just follow the tutorial to solve your Windows Media Player FLAC playback issue.

UPDATE: As of Windows 10 version 1507, Windows Media Player 12 add native support for FLAC playback, which means you can play FLAC in Windows Media Player directly without an additional FLAC codec installed. But you remain faithful to WMP old version, the two solutions we mentioned below are still workable!

Although WMP does not provide native support for the popular lossless format FLAC, with media codec pack installed, you can easily make WMP play all the popular and even rare media formats. Here, let’s take K-Lite Codec Pack as an example to show how to play FLAC with Windows Media Player.

Step 1. To solve Windows Media Player FLAC playback issue, first, click the below link to free download the basic version of K-Lite Codec Pack first:

https://codecguide.com/download_kl.htm

Step 2. Launch the Windows Media Player FLAC codec. Then click Miscellaneous Thumbnails. There will pop up a Thumbnail Settings window, including almost all the media files formats. Now, make sure you have already checked .flac, and click Apply & Close.

Step 3. After all the above process, just run Windows Media Player and open your wanted FLAC files. Now you can successfully play FLAC in Windows Media Player.