26 Best Free FLAC Player Software For Windows

Here is a list of best free FLAC player software for Windows. FLAC or Free Lossless Audio Codec is an audio coding format used for lossless compression of digital audio files. Audio files compressed by FLAC algorithms consume 50 to 70 percent less space without compromising the audio quality. In order to play the FLAC audio files, you need special FLAC players. Hence, I have compiled a list of FLAC players that you can use to play FLAC audio files.

There are two types of FLAC players; some of them can play only audio files, while others can play both audio and video files. Not just FLAC audio but audio files of many other formats like WAV, MP3, MP2, AAC, OGG, etc. can also be played. As these players are basically music players which provide various handy tools. In many FLAC music players, you can easily create and export playlists in various formats like PLS, M3U, M3U8, etc. In some software, you can also import external playlists. Besides this, important audio tweaking features like Equalizer and Audio Filters are also present in most software. You can also easily adjust Pitch, Bass, Treble, etc. just by varying the bands of the Equalizer. Along with local audio files, you can also connect to and stream online radio using these software. Overall, all of these software provide a good experience of listening to FLAC audio.

My Favorite FLAC Player Software For Windows:

Clementine is my favorite FLAC player because it lets you play both locally stored as well as cloud stored FLAC audio files. It is also a very good music player that provides a lot of music-specific features. Plus, its ability to support a large number of audio formats is also impressive.

You can also check out lists of best free AC3 Player, WebM Player, and SWF Player software for Windows.

Clementine

Clementine is a free open source FLAC player software for Windows. This software is mainly a music player in which you get a lot of music specific features for a better music listening experience. Using this software, you can play both locally stored music files as well as music stored in cloud services like Amazon Cloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, etc. You can also stream online music and listen to various internet radio stations.

In this FLAC music player, you can easily create, import, and export playlists of various popular playlist formats like M3U, M3U8, XSPF, PLS, ASX, and CUE formats. Similar to playlists, it also supports various audio formats other than FLAC, such as MP3, OGG, FLAC, MPC, M4A, AAC, etc.

The most impressive property of this software is that it lets you open multiple playlists at a time from its interface. In addition to these features, a dedicated Tools menu is also present in which you can find some useful tools like Cover Manager, Queue Manager, Equalizer, Audio Transcoder, etc. Plus, all standard audio player features to play audio, pause audio, change track, etc. are also available. Overall, it is one of my favorite FLAC players because it really focuses on the music and audio related features.

MusicBee

MusicBee is another free and open source FLAC player software for Windows. It is basically a really good music player software in which you can play audio files, manage audio files, and also search locally stored music. MusicBee also supports podcasts, web radio stations, and comes with SoundCloud integration. Plus, it also has an auto-tagging feature that can be very useful to clean up the messy music library. It also has an advanced feature namely Automatic Scan that automatically scans the whole PC to find audio files. Its sync feature is also pretty good, and if you have a MusicBee account, then you can also maintain similar playlists on multiple devices.

The output audio produced by this software is really good. However, you can still use the inbuilt 15-band equalizer to manually tweak audio parameters. You can also incorporate external plugins to further enhance the performance of this software. Another good thing about this software is that it can play audio files of various different formats like MP3, FLAC, AAC, OGG, APE, WMA, WAV, MPC, and more.

VLC Media Player

VLC Player is a very popular open source media player software for Windows. It can also be used as a FLAC player. This player can play FLAC audio files along with a lot of audio and video formats like MP3, WAV, WMA, MOV, MP4, AVI, WMV, FLV, etc. Plus, audio and video streaming can also be done in this software. In it, you can add multiple FLAC files in a queue and save the whole queue as a playlist of various playlist formats like M3U, M3U8, HTML, and XSPF playlist.

This FLAC player also provides all the basic but essential tools to play FLAC audio files like Play/Pause Buttons, Next and Previous songs buttons to switch songs, Loop (to play one song or a list of songs continuously), and Random (to play songs in a random manner). A really handy Audio Equalizer is also available through which you can easily adjust parameters of audio. This FLAC audio player provides more useful features like Sound Booster, Track Synchronizer, Video Metadata Editor, and more.

WINAMP

WINAMP is yet another free FLAC player software for Windows. It is also quite good at playing audio files of many popular audio formats like MP3, AAC, WAV, M4A, OGG, etc. Video files are also supported by it, but it only plays the sound contained in videos due to lack of proper video player.

In order to add audio files to this software, you can either use its own file explorer or you can directly drop FLAC audio files or other audio files on its interface. In case of multiple audio files, you can create playlists using Generate Playlist button. Playlists of M3U, PLS, and M3U8 can be generated and exported through this software. Similar to exporting a playlist, you can also import playlists and play them. A local library menu can also come in handy as it automatically sorts songs in various categories like Most Played, Recently Added, Recently Played, Never Played, etc.

Using this FLAC music player, you can also listen to Online Radio and Podcasts. Plus, you can also use its inbuilt browser to browse, search, and play online audio files. This software keeps a record of all played songs that you can view from the History Section. Many skins are also available in this software to change the visual appearance of this software. Overall, it is a really good FLAC audio player that produces one of the best sounds.

ZPlayer

ZPlayer is a completely free FLAC player software for Windows. It is a very good audio player for audiophiles because it uses Anti-Aliasing and Interpolation in sound resampling to give you the best possible audio quality. Similar to this, many more audio specific features can be found in this software. Some of its advanced features which are worth mentioning are 16-band Equalizer, Bass Redirect, and Wide Stereo Sound Effects, Independent volume channels, Automatic matrix conversion between channels (mono, stereo, 5.1, etc.), etc. In addition to internal features, it also supports external Winamp2 plugins which can further enhance the capabilities of this software.

To add and play FLAC or audio files of other formats, you need to first add a music folder to this software. After that, all the files will be added to the playlist section of this software from where you can play them. However, this player doesn’t allow you to export playlists.

Overall, it is another really good FLAC player that you can download and use without spending a penny.

SMPlayer

SMPlayer is a completely free open source FLAC software for Windows. It comes with a lot of built-in packages due to which it can virtually play both audio and video files of almost all formats, including FLAC audio. In this freeware, you get a dedicated Audio Menu that has various features to adjust the playback of audio. Using features of the Audio Menu, you can change Channels (Stereo, 4.0 surround, 5.1 surround, etc.), Add Audio Filters (Extra stereo, Karaoke, Earwax, etc.), Set Delay, etc. A handy Audio Equalizer is also present in here using which you can manually vary various audio parameters like pitch, bass, treble, etc.

The interface of this software is quite intuitive and has all essential features like Seekbar, Play Button, Stop Buttons, Volume Controller, etc. on the standard locations. Besides audio playback and audio related features, you also get various video related and other useful features like Video Equalizer, Aspect Ratio Changer, Video Filters, Online Video Player, Radio Player, Subtitles Settings, Tablet Mode, etc.

GOM Player

GOM Player is another free media player that can also be used to play FLAC music files. In it, you can easily add and play FLAC audio along with media files of many other formats. You can also make a playlist of FLAC files that you can later save in ASX playlist format. Beside FLAC format, it supports many other audio and video formats like MP3, M4A, AAC, OGG, AMR, WAV, WMA, RMA, ALAC, AVI, DIVX, OGM, MKV, MP4, etc.

Its media player section is pretty simple that has all necessary tools like Play/ Pause, Stop, Forward, Backward Buttons, Volume Controller, etc. A control panel menu is also present that contains tools like Audio Equalizer (to tweak the quality of audio), Video Settings (to adjust video parameters), Subtitle (to add subtitles to a video), Control (to change audio playback speed and to repeat a section of an audio), etc.

Overall, it is another good FLAC audio player that you can use to play both audio and video files.

bomi

bomi is a powerful open source media player software for Windows. It is also a portable software that you can use without installing it on a system. This player can also be used as a FLAC player software because it can easily play all types of FLAC files. In general, it plays almost all types of audio and video files such as AAC, AC3, AIFF, APE, FLAC, MP4, AVI, ASF, 3GP, DIVX, FLV, and more. Plus, you can also load and play playlists of some popular playlists formats namely CUE, PLS, M3U, and M3U8. Individual audio files and music folders can also be added to this software. You can easily create playlists using the audio of added music folders that you can later save in supported playlists formats.

This FLAC audio player provides basic Play/Pause buttons, Seekbar, Volume Controller, etc. tools on the main interface. Apart from these tools, you also get an Audio menu that you can access from the right-click menu. In the Audio menu, you get various useful audio tools like Equalizer (to manually adjust audio quality by changing various audio frequency), AMP (to amplify the audio), Channel (to select the right channel configuration like stereo, 2.1, 5.1, 7.1 wide, etc.), Audio Normalizer, Tempo Scaler, etc.

In this portable FLAC player, you can also find many video settings and features that you can use to adjust the video like Color Space, Color Range, Quality Preset, Color Filters, Aspect Ratio, Crop Tool, Zoom Tool, etc.

Amarok

Amarok is yet another free FLAC player software for Windows. In this player, you can add multiple songs as well as multiple playlists at a time. You can also import lyrics of music files to read lyrics while listening to music. This player is capable of playing audio of many popular formats like AAC, AIFF, MP3, MP2, WAV, WMA, and more. Here, you also get a 10-band equalizer along with multiple presets to make adjustments to music according to your liking.

In this FLAC player, you cannot only play local audio files, but you can also listen to online radio stations (Lasts.fm, Librivox.org, etc.) and podcasts. A dedicated Playlist Menu is also available using which you can create, import, and export playlists of formats like M3U, M3U8, XSPF, PLS, etc.

More useful features that you get in this software are Applets Manager (it lets you add widgets like Lyrics, Song Labels, Song Info, etc. to the interface), Bookmark Manager (to manage your bookmarked playlists, track positions, songs, etc.), Cover Manager (to manage the cover art of songs and albums), etc.

RealPlayer

RealPlayer is a free media player software that can play both audio and video files of various formats. Some of the media formats that you can play this FLAC music player are AAC, MP3, WAV, AIFF, AU, FLV, MPEG, MOV, MP4, and more. You can also use it as FLAC player because of its ability to play FLAC audio files. In it, you can also create a playlist of multiple audio files, but you cannot export it. Besides playlist, you can also manage Albums, Stories, Photos, and Videos.

In order to play standard audio or FLAC files, it provides a standard set of playback tools including Play/Pause button, Previous button, Next button along with a handy volume controller that can also boost audio. However, it does not provide any option to tweak audio parameters.

This player also offers many interesting features, namely: Web Video Browser, CD/DVD Burn Tool, Online Video Downloader, Cloud Support (to save Playlist, Library, etc. on the cloud), etc.

KMPlayer

KMPlayer is the next free FLAC player software for Windows. In this player, you can play both audio and video files of many formats like FLAC, WAV, MP2, MP3, AAC, MP4, WMV, MOV, AVI, etc. In it, you can also play online audio and video files just by providing their URL’s. At a time, multiple FLAC files can be added to this software. Plus, you can also create playlists in it that you can later export in ASX, KPL, M3U, and PLS playlist formats.

This software provides all standard audio player features namely, Play/pause buttons, Previous/Forward audio buttons, and Stop button on the main interface. Plus, a settings menu with 10-Band Audio Equalizer, Audio Genre Presets, Audio Effects, etc. to tweak audio parameters are also available. In this software, you also get a lot of handy video related tools that may come in handy like Time Stretching, 360-degree video player, 3D video playback tools, Video Filters, etc. Overall, it is an all-around media player that provides really good audio and video playback experience.

MediaMonkey

MediaMonkey is another free FLAC player software for Windows. It is mainly a media player in which you can play audio files of formats like MP3, AAC, M4A, OGG, WMA, FLAC, ALAC, MPC, WAV, CDA, AVI, MP4, OGV, MPEG, WMV, M3U, PLS, etc. This software can also be very useful in the management of Music Files, Playlists, Audiobooks, Podcasts, Movies, TV Shows, etc. Plus, it also lets you browse, organize, and search music by Genre, Artist, Albums, etc.

In this software, you can find many other useful features related to music. Let’s take a brief look at some important features of this software:

• Track Identifier: This software automatically identifies music and movies with missing information. Plus, it can also add information to files with the help of external plugins.
• Playlist Manager: Using it, you can easily create and manage multiple playlists. Plus, you can also export playlists in M3U formats.
• Automatic Library Updates: From File Monitor, you can enable the auto update of your music library. Whenever any new file gets added or deleted from the source folder, the corresponding changes will also happen in the library.
• Download Music & Podcasts: This software comes with inbuilt podcatcher and online music downloader to download podcasts and music.
• Audio Converter: You can easily convert audio or even videos of one format to another format.

In this FLAC player, you can also manually modify audio parameters or use predefined presets like Rock, Classical, Live, Pop, etc. using the Equalizer. Overall, it is one of the most features reach FLAC music player that you can find in free.

PotPlayer

PotPlayer is another free FLAC player software for Windows. It is mainly a multimedia player that can play both audio and video files of various formats MP4, AVI, WMV, MPE, 3GP, MP3, MP2, WMA, OGG, etc. including FLAC format. It can also play broken files to some extent. This FLAC media player can not only play audio and videos but also provides various advanced features like Enhanced H/W acceleration (to provide maximum performance by using minimum resources), Support for 3D Glasses (to give you immersive 3D experience), Subtitle Support, Built-in Library of codecs, etc.

This player also gives you the freedom to modify both the audio and video quality by varying various parameters. By using the inbuilt Control Panel of this software, you can modify parameters like Bass, Treble, Color, Saturation, etc. along with Playback speed. Overall, it is a very capable FLAC player which can play almost all types of media formats.

5KPlayer

5KPlayer is the next free FLAC player software for Windows. You can also use this player to play audio as well as videos of multiple formats. Some of the media formats that it supports besides FLAC are AAC, MP3, APE, AIFF, WAV, AVI, MP4, MOV, and more. This player is divided into two parts namely Media Player and Library.

The media player section is simple where you get basic media playing options like Play/Pause buttons, Seekbar, Volume Controller, Next and Previous track buttons, etc. The Library section lets you manage and play music files, movies, playlists, etc.

This FLAC media player has two more handy tools namely Online video downloader (to download videos from the internet) and Airplay (to mirror your content to Apple TVs, IPads, etc. and to stream audio and video between devices).

Trout

Trout is a free and lightweight FLAC audio player software for Windows. In this player, you can play FLAC audio along with audio files of various formats such as MP3, AAC, AIFF, MP2, WAV, etc. Besides this, you can also play online audio files by providing their URL’s. In this software, you can also directly import audio playlists of various formats namely TPL, M3U, PLS, and WPL. Not only you can load playlist, but you can create your own playlist and save it in TPL playlist format. This software also lets you add multiple music folders to this software. All the audio files of all added folders will automatically be added to the library of this software. To keep the library up to date, you can use tools like remove dead entries, remove duplicates, etc. The audio player part of this software is very basic that only provides the basic Play/Pause, Volume Control, Seekbar, etc. features.

JetAudio

JetAudio is the next free FLAC player software for Windows. It is a feature rich FLAC audio player in which you can easily play and tweak audio parameters (bass, treble, pitch, etc.) using the inbuilt Audio Equalizer. You can also use various Equalizer Genre Presets (Rock, POP, JAZZ, Classical, etc. ) and Sound Effects (Wide, Reverb, X-Bass, etc.) to adjust the output audio quality. At a time, you can add multiple audio files and play them in sequence. You can also create a playlist in this software, but you can’t export it.

This software is not only good at playing FLAC audio files but audio of many formats like MP3, AAC, WAV, MIDI, M4A, OGG, etc. can also be played. Plus, playlists of various popular formats (M3U, M3U8, PLS, ASX, etc.) can also be played. Apart from playing audio files, this FLAC player can also be used as an Audio Converter, Audio Recorder, Online Video Downloader, Lyrics Maker, and as the Audio Trimmer.

Nightangle

Nightangle is a free open source FLAC player software for Windows. It mainly acts as a music player, but it is also capable of playing video files. In this FLAC audio player, you can maintain a separate library for both audio and video files. It can play both audio and video files of multiple formats such as WAV, OGG, FLAC, AAC, MP3, MP2, WMA, MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, etc.

As a music player, it provides all essential playback controls like play track, next track, previous track, shuffle, repeat one, repeat all, etc. Additionally, a handy 10-band audio equalizer to manually change audio pitch, bass, treble, etc. is also present in it. Along with individual audio files, you can also import and play playlists of multiple formats (M3U, M3U8, ASX, ATOM, PLS, etc.) in it.

In this audio player, you can also find handy tools named as Radio (to listen to the online radio), Add-ons (to add more features to this software), and Smart Playlist.

3nity Media Player

3nity Media Player is a free open source media player software that can also be used as a FLAC player. In this software, you can play FLAC files along with many other audio and video formats. Plus, options to connect and listen to Icecast Radio, Online Music, and Online Video Songs are also present. This software comes with various inbuilt codecs like MPEG-2, H.264, DivX, MPEG-4, MKV, WebM, WMV, etc. Hence, you don’t need external codecs to play any type of audio or video file. Some of the common media formats that it can play are MP3, MP2, AAC, AIFF, WAV, WMV, MP4, AVI, MOV, etc.

The interface of this software is quite simple that has all common Play/Pause, Next, Previous buttons, and Volume Controller, etc. buttons. Its interface also contains some handy options like Playlist (to create and save the playlist in M3U format), Equalizer (to change audio parameters according to your liking), and Settings (to adjust video parameters), etc.

MPC-HC

MPC-HC is a completely free media player software for Windows. In this player, you can play FLAC audio along with various other audio and video formats like AMR, MP3, WAV, AIFF, WMA, MP4, WMV, AVI, etc. While playing an audio file, you can easily increase or decrease the audio speed, go to forward or previous songs, and stop or pause the song. Plus, you can also create playlists which you can later export in .mpcpl, .pls, .m3u, and .asx formats.

This software has one interesting feature named as After Playback, using which you can set a task that will automatically execute immediately after the end of a song. Tasks that you can set after playback are Play next file in the folder, Exit, Turn off monitor, Standby, Hibernate, Shutdown, Log off, and Lock. By going to its settings, you can find a lot more configurable options (Audio Switcher, Audio Renderer, etc.).

JSound

JSound is the next free open source FLAC player software for Windows. It mainly acts as a feature rich music player which can also be used to play FLAC audio files. This FLAC audio player comes with a powerful 31 band audio equalizer. You can adjust the bands of the equalizer as per your liking to get the exact music experience you want. It also comes with some presets that you can choose to change the Genre of the music. You can also add different types of effects on the playing music to make further adjustments in the output audio.

JSound comes with various applications or applets using which you can perform various tasks. For Example, internet radio applet through which you can connect to internet radio. Besides applets, this software also provides playlists supports that helps in the creation and modification of a playlist. The visualizations provided by it are pretty cool and comes with music representation in spectrum and VU meter.

Apart from media playing features, it can also rip CD files, convert audio formats, and also record music.

OooPlayer

OooPlayer is yet another free open source FLAC player software for Windows. Like other similar software, it can also play FLAC as well as audio files of formats like MP3, AAC, OGG, FLAC, WMA, AC3, SPX, etc. Apart from playing locally stored audio files, you can also connect to play internet radio. A Lyrics Downloader is also present in it that can be a very useful feature for many users. Here, you also get options to create, Import, and export playlists of three formats namely PPF, M3U, and M3U8.

This software provides all basic music player features like lyrics, multiple playlists, cover art, etc. Plus, an advanced 18 band equalizer with a lot of presets (Flat, Ballad, Classical, Club, etc.) is also present. Using the equalizer you can manually adjust various audio parameters or you can use presets to directly make desired changes on the audio. Overall, it is an easy to use FLAC music player which is also very light on system resources.

Musique

Musique is yet another free open source FLAC player software for Windows. In this software, you can drop FLAC audio files to its interface to play them. You can also add the entire music folder in this software to listen to. As soon as audio files get added to this software, it automatically categorizes the audio files according to Artist, and Albums that you can view from the interface. A separate folder section is also present just beside the Albums section, in which you can view all the songs or audio files present in the added music folder. You can also arrange the order of songs by dropping them to the right side of the interface.

In terms of audio playing features, you only get standard Play/Pause button, Volume Controller, Seekbar, and Next/ Previous track buttons. Overall, it is very basic software, but it can still play music files of various formats such as AAC, FLAC, M4A, MP3, OGG, WAV, and more.

Foobnix

Foobnix is a free, portable, and open source FLAC player software for Windows. Like other software, it can also play audio of various formats such as SWF, VOB, WAV, WMA, MP3, AAC, APE, AIFF, etc. This player doesn’t come with many features, but its multitab interface can be very useful for audiophiles because it provides multiple tabs for both playlists and for music folders. That means you can quickly toggle between playlists and music folders without much hassle.

This music player can also be used as an Online Radio Player because it supports thousands of radio stations. Some of the popular radio stations that you can listen to are DI.FM, SKY.FM, MYRADIO.UA, GUZEI.COM, etc.

There are two more useful features which you get in it are Equalizer (it lets you manually configure the audio output of this player) and Download Manager (to download songs by using their URL’s).

Jajuk

Jajuk is a free Java-based FLAC player software for Windows. This software is mainly built for advanced users and it helps them to organize all their scattered music collection. In this player, you can easily add and play audio files of various formats like MP3, OGG, FLAC, AAC, WMA, APE, etc. It also provides a dedicated Playlist Section using which you can easily create a new playlist, bookmark playlists, mark playlists as favorites, and also save playlists. Besides Playlist, a really handy section named Simple is also available. This simple section smartly divides music according to your music playing habit into categories like preferred music, rarely listen, similar artists, newest songs, etc.

There are more useful section that you can find in Jajuk such as Tracks (it divides audio files according to their storage location), Files (it shows all the added audio files and radio stations in one place), Information (you can view complete information about songs, albums, radio stations, etc.), Stats (shows music playing habits in terms of stats like total number of tracks played by month, genres, collection size by month, etc. in a graphical format.), etc. Along with these sections, you can also find some additional features like find duplicate tracks, smart playlist, Karaoke mode, etc. Overall, it is one of the most feature-rich audio players that you can use for free.

Audacious

Audacious is one more free and open source audio player software that can also play FLAC audio files. In this audio player, you can also play audio of many other formats like MP3, AAC, OGG, FLAC, WMA, ALAC, WAVE, M3U, XML, PLS, etc. Not just audio files, but you can also import and play playlists of formats like ASXv3, M3U, PLS, XSPF, etc. In this player, you get a drag and drop functionality to quickly drop and play audio files. Plus, an internal search option to search for artists or albums from the entire music library along with the option to create a custom playlist is present.

In this FLAC audio player, you can manually tweak audio parameters using the 10 band equalizer. Plus, you can also enable various audio effects such as  Echo, Extra Stereo, Crossfade, Channel Mixer, and more. It also supports plugins, so there is room to further enhance the capabilities of this software.

FFMPEG

FFMPEG is a console based open source FLAC player for Windows. This software does not have any interface, so you need to use commands to play FLAC audio files. Apart from playing the FLAC audio, you can also use it to play all other types of audio and video files. This software can even be used to perform various editing task like audio trimming, audio merging, audio cutting, etc. With the use of the right command, you can perform many audio and video related task.

How to play FLAC audio using FFMPEG:

In order to play a FLAC music file, you need to first write the path of ffplay.exe. After that, put a space and enter -i and then submit the path of music file under double quotes and press the Enter button to play. Your command will look like this:

ffplay.exe -i "E:\LISTOFFREEWARE.flac"

As soon as you submit the command, music will start playing in a separate audio player window. From the new window, you can also go forward and back by clicking on the left or right part of the audio player window.