How To Play 24bit WAV Files in Windows Media Player

[Haydn]

thanks so much for posting this!
I have been looking for this solution for a long time, although not actively because im lazy.

now I can play 24bit and 48khz files without opening a sequencer/editor - Excellent

[tnjazz]

Winamp plays 24 bit files right out of the box.

[Haydn]

Yeh but I dont like winamp :P

does winamp play .mov or .rm files ? (without installing realplayer or quicktime)

[T.RayBullard]

winamp AND foobar are both phenomenal.

[theblue1]

Originally Posted by Haydn

Yeh but I dont like winamp :P

does winamp play .mov or .rm files ? (without installing realplayer or quicktime)

For Real media files I use RealAlternative which seems to by and large work great, seems to have a small, unleaky footprint -- and DOES NOT SPY ON YOU (unlike some Real media players from... well... the 'real deal.')


I'd heard good things about Quicktime Alternative -- but IT requires you to uninstall Apple Quicktime and I -- extremely unfortunately -- need Quicktime Pro to deal with the output of my cam.

I was AMAZED to find I couldn't play "Mp4" files in the version of QT Pro I paid $30 bucks for a year or a little more ago -- esp. since Apple was hyping it (v 6.5) as the 'pathway' to Mp4.

But I kept hitting the Update utility and would go check and come back and tell me I was up to date and had all the codecs.

THEN I realized there was a NEW version of QT out (7) and you need IT to play Mp4s.

But to upgrade from 6.5 to 7 would cost me FULL PRICE (!!!). And you can't install the free/nagware limited QT player WITHOUT uninstalling QT Pro.

[NOW, of course, I find out that all versions of Quicktime on both Mac and Windows has a serious security flaw (similar to the ones fixed in WMP and WinAmp a year or more ago) so I really have to watch out for QT media! And -- of course -- QT is so intrustive that it keeps trying to 'grab' media file associations -- I finally had to go into the damn registry and pull out the crap it keeps putting in. IT IS TRULY GARBAGEWARE.]


So I was DELIGHTED to find that VLC media player plays mp4 and other "QT" media really well and has far more playback controls than the crappy QT Pro. (Which, unfortunately, I still need.) Happily, VLC does NOT force you to remove old QT players.

[dfg_MacGyver]

cool still works on fully updated XP

[PeterRobinson]

Thank you very much for that Windows Media player fix .. I record using cubase at 24bit .. and it was a drag to keep switching editors just to play a file .... much appreciated

Peter Robinson Arranger:Professional musician
prob@labyrinth.net.au

[OOO123]

You can go to this page to have a look of this detailed guide on how to play 24bit WAV Files in Windows Media Player. It is available at:FLAC to WAV Converter: How to convert FLAC to WAV on Windows and Mac?. It did help me a lot. Hope it can be helpful. Good luck.

[eggobass]

Originally Posted by weedmaker

You probably had problems with playing 24bit WAV files in WMP and this is a simple solution written by Chris P. [MVP]:

First, grab the filter here

Installation and Removal instruction:


Hope it helps!

Why are you using Windows Media Player? Pretty out of date and unreliable.

[Alndln]

Is this fix limited to 24 bit? Or will it aloow 32 or 64 bit audio files?

[GoldMember]

Originally Posted by alndln

is this fix limited to 24 bit? Or will it aloow 32 or 64 bit auduio files?

this fix is from 2006.

[wholebrain]

VLC media player has been my most trusted media player for all codecs. it's a beast. VideoLAN - Official page for VLC media player, the Open Source video framework!

from the website: "Simple, fast and powerful media player. Plays everything: Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams. Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed: MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3... Runs on all platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix... Completely Free, 0 spyware, 0 ads and no user tracking. Can do Media Convertion and Streaming. "

-how do you like that...completely FREE.

[EtherealEntity]

My media player does this just fine? Perhaps because this is from 2006?

[kafka]

Originally Posted by wholebrain

VLC media player has been my most trusted media player for all codecs. it's a beast. VideoLAN - Official page for VLC media player, the Open Source video framework!

from the website: "Simple, fast and powerful media player. Plays everything: Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams. Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed: MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3... Runs on all platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix... Completely Free, 0 spyware, 0 ads and no user tracking. Can do Media Convertion and Streaming. "

-how do you like that...completely FREE.

Oh, this looks cool. I'm going to have to give it a try. Thanks!

[rksguit]

I'm a tad confused,my WMP,plays my Sonar X1 32bit exports,or 24/48 files,all the time,without converting anything.

[EtherealEntity]

^ Yep like I said above..No problem. I always export 24/48 and then convert to 16/44 with R8brain. I then listen to them side by side in media player..

[John The Cut]

Yep still working on XP SP3 - Very cool. Cheers

[divine source]

and what about AIF files, can you play them with wmp ?? and if so, how ??

the last time i went to a friend's studio, i wanted to check some files i had with me, but they didn't work... i think he had Win7...