![]() ![]() If Microsoft add this support as standard then I will no longer have to go through the steps I have previously used to add support for Apple Lossless. I certainly would very much like them to do this as I have all my music library in Apple Lossless and currently shared between iTunes and WMP and Windows Media Center. In theory this should be as easy for them as FLAC since Apple Lossless is also free and open-source like FLAC. What has not been widely discussed is whether Microsoft are also going to add support as standard for Apple Lossless in Windows 10. (FLAC is roughly equivalent to Apple Lossless.) The new information that has been fairly widely discussed is that Microsoft are going to add new Media Foundation codecs as standard in Windows 10 to support FLAC for music files, and MKV for video files. filters one could still install a DirectShow filter to play Apple Lossless files. Fortunately as Windows Media Player in Windows 7 and 8/8.1 still supports DirectShow codecs aka. At the same time Microsoft added as standard a Media Foundation codec which could play AAC files but not Apple Lossless files. For those unaware of the history of Windows Media Player and music/video formats, originally Microsoft used a software library called DirectShow to do this, when Windows 7 was launched they added support for a new standard called Media Foundation with this being the 'preferred' approach. The purpose of this post is to discuss what new options there might be. (Along with a few other steps admittedly.) This is currently possible with Windows 8.1 and earlier by installing a DirectShow filter. ![]() So one way to play Apple Lossless files in Windows 10 will be via iTunes, however a lot of people would like to use Windows Media Player and hence Windows Media Center to play these files also. It would seem pretty certain that Apple will ensure that there will be a version of iTunes compatible with Windows 10 around the time that Windows 10 is officially released.
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