How do I play FLAC and Ogg Vorbis audio files?
Flac and Ogg are music encoding methods that allow the original source material to be preserved whilst at the same time compressing the data. These are then expanded back to the original at the time of playback. You can obtain/buy specific player software to do this. Alternatively, there is an easier way if your player of choice is Windows Media Player, where all you have to do is to install a plug-in codec set that allows a variety of file types to be supported for playback. Once you have installed such a plug-in you can easily playback a “.flac” file, for example, at up to 192kHz sampling rate – but be prepared for these files to be pretty large! Here at Cantatis, we’ve used the codecs from www.xiph.org with no problems.
