file extension FLA

Windows Media Player 11 offers great new ways to store and enjoy all of your digital media. It's easier than ever to access all of your music, video, pictures, and recorded TV on your computer. Play it, view it, organize it, and sync it to a portable device for enjoying on the go, or share with devices around your home - all from one place. Windows Media Player 11 is designed to work with all editions of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), and can also be used to restore Windows Media Player and related technologies to N and KN editions of Windows Vista.

Add FLAC Support to Windows Media Player 11 and Windows Media Center

Step 1: If running 32-bit Windows download this Flac registry patch. If running 64-bit Windows download this Flac x64 registry patch.

Step 2: Download the madFlac directshow decoder; install.

Step 3: Double click on the registry patch to apply and it will make the changes to add flac support to WMP/WMC.

Step 4: Reboot your computer (don't skip this).

Step 5: Now start WMP or WMC and if all goes well you should see any flac files that are in monitored folders appear in the audio library.

WinAmp is digital media player known as first and best mp3 player

Winamp is the best multimedia player ever with many features such as skins/themes, plugins/extensions, portable device support including ipod, media library etc..

dBpoweramp supports practically every audio type created: mp3, mp4, m4a (iTunes / iPod), wma, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Monkeys Audio, FLAC, the list goes on....fully compatible with Windows Vista, 98 / ME / NT4 / 2000 and Windows XP. Split into four components:

dBpoweramp Music Converter™ nicknamed the Swiss army knife of audio™:

• CD Ripper: digitally rip audio CDs (secure, fast, AccurateRip),
• Convert audio formats, preserve ID tags,
• Explorer Integration: audio info tips & columns,
• DSP Effects,
• ID tag editing (Power Pack),
• Free from nags**, popups, hidden spyware or bundleware.

dBpoweramp Audio Player™ if ever there was a complete player this is it:

• Complete music rating system with selective play,
• Cross-fader & gapless playback,
• Playlist editor, most played, newest,
• Advanced skins,
• Mini tray control,
• Small and fast - modularized: only components used are loaded.

dBpoweramp CD Writer™ Creating audio CDs shouldn't be difficult and it isn't with CD Writer:

• Burn audio CDs from practically any audio file,
• 74, 80 / 90 minute CDs,
• Mp3 / WMA / Ogg Vorbis data CDs,
• Visualize CDs usage,
• Create Audio CDs straight from Rip,

Sveta Portable Audio™ Splashed out on a portable mp3 player, but feel disappointed by the included software? (too complex, bloated, slow), Sveta can help:

• Rip Audio CDs straight to your player,
• On the Fly smart conversions between formats,
• Integration with dBpoweramp family,
• Edit Tags, Copy Audio back and Playlist handling (subject to portable capabilities),
• Synchronize your Audio Collection with portable

VLC media player

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio, and you can play back compressed FLAC files in your favorite player (or your car or home stereo, see supported devices) just like you would an MP3 file.

FLAC stands out as the fastest and most widely supported lossless audio codec, and the only one that at once is non-proprietary, is unencumbered by patents, has an open-source reference implementation, has a well documented format and API, and has several other independent implementations.