Windows Media Player, FLAC and Ogg

I recently reinstalled my main PC, and wanted to rationalize the number of media players I have installed.

Windows Media Player sounds best, to my ears, so I use that as a default, but it doesn’t allow me to play FLAC, Ogg, Monkey’s Audio and some other formats. I have to have iTunes installed, as much as I hate it. I used to have WinAmp and one or two others installed, too.

But this time, I wanted to rationalise things. Quite a lot of Googling later, I found this page which showed me how to install some software to enable WMP to play all of the formats I want to play. And it’s not as difficult to set up as the page seems to be warning.

I am a happy bunny!