Windows software to play FLAC files

Pristine Classical Historic Recordings

The XBMC Media Canter - A Universal Free Replay System

Pristine Classical recommends the XBMC Media Center software for all audio replay on all computer plaftorms. Click here for further details of this comprehensive, free, universal audio, video and photo replay software.

Windows Software to play or convert FLAC

The following software will play FLAC files without any requirement for modification - simply download, install and start using the current version.

Winamp: http://www.winamp.com
Foobar 2000: http://www.foobar2000.org
VLC: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
Songbird: http://gestsongbird.com
VU Player: http://www.vuplayer.com/vuplayer.php
Bigasoft Audio Converter: http://www.bigasoft.com/audio-converter.html

Other software may play FLAC with additional plug-ins - see this page for more information and links.

Test your FLAC replay with the following piece of music:

Rachmaninov: Prelude in C sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 2 (orch. Cailliet) - 4:55
The Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy, Feb. 1950
Taken from Ormandy conducts Stravinsky and Rachmaninov, PASC183

Click here to download 16-bit Ambient Stereo FLAC (20.54MB)

If you wish to play FLACs in Windows Media Player you'll need to install the appropriate Codec - full details of this simple procedure are shown here.

Pristine Classical - DRM-free historic FLACs and MP3s since 2005

FLAC or MP3?

All our Pristine Audio recordings are available in both MP3 and FLAC format