Cannot export files in FLAC

[micmuff]

BTW, what do you recommend as 'better' (for Windows)?

Personally, for audio I like Foobar2000 http://www.foobar2000.org/
It's perhaps rather plain looking and the library management is fairly basic, but it is an excellent audio player; lightweight, quick to open, and lots of useful features including good tagging support and file format conversion.

For media in general (including video) I like VLC (http://www.videolan.org/index.html) which supports a huge range of media formats.

There are many other good players to choose from.

Thanks. I'd like to find something minimal but high quality, just for audio (I record live sound effects and music at 24/96). Haven't found one yet. Most seem to have lots of crxp (commercial playlists, etc) I don't need or want.
cheers
Micmuff

[steve]

I'd like to find something minimal but high quality, just for audio ....

Imho you should definitely give Foobar2000 a go (also, it's free).

[micmuff]

I'd like to find something minimal but high quality, just for audio ....

Imho you should definitely give Foobar2000 a go (also, it's free).

Thanks, I just downloaded it on your recommendation...will give a try.
Micmuff

[pdun459]

FLAC is awesome. It would be great if MS would start supporting it in WMP.

As far as players go, I use AIMP. It's an audio player only so it's fairly small and sounds great. The website is in Russian but the forum has an English section where you can ask questions.

[steve]

FLAC is awesome. It would be great if MS would start supporting it in WMP.

The Microsoft position has remained the same for years and years (10+), which is essentially:
"The Flac extension is not a supported file type of Windows Media Player. You may however user your favorite search engine to search for a solution that may convert the file to a Windows Media Player supported file type."
so I don't think it likely that they will change their mind any time soon.

My preferred answer is similar:
"The Flac extension is not a supported file type of Windows Media Player. You may however user your favorite search engine to search for a better media player."

As far as players go, I use AIMP.

I've not tried it (it does not support Linux) but it looks a lot like an audio only WinAmp clone. (I used WinAmp for many years when I was on Windows, and mostly liked it (apart from version 3).

and sounds great

Unless sound effects are being added, there really shouldn't be any difference between "the sound" of one audio player and another. If they are playing the same audio data through the same hardware, the waveform that comes out through the speakers/headphones should be no different. Even for compressed formats like MP3, the reference decoding algorithm is well defined, so other than a few milliseconds delay at the start there should be no difference. Foobar2000, WinAmp, WMP, iTunes, VLC,... all "sound" identical (effects turned off). If a media player sounds different, there is something wrong with that media player.