500Homeruns Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Is it possible to install a program like Foobar on an external hard drive to play my FLAC files (also on the same external hard drive) on a Windows (7) computer? The computer is at work and I don't want to install any extra programs on it. I know I could just convert all of the FLAC files to MP3's and use WMP, but I wanted to check before I do a large conversion. Link to comment
AlainGr Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Hi, I am not sure if foobar is considered a "standalone" program (a software that will contain all that is required in its own folder), Meybe you could force it to install itself on your music hard drive while connected to one computer and then try connecting your hard drive on another and try to start it. If it starts, it means that you can. If not, it is not a "standalone". Maybe there are other softwares that will work and are considered "portable", the kind that will start on a USB key or, like you wish, on your music hard drive ? Alas I don't have any software in mind for this, but if you Google with something like "portable music player", you will find something suitable ? Hope this helps. Regards, Alain Link to comment
kumakuma Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 How about something like this: VLC Media Player Portable | PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB, portable and cloud drives Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
500Homeruns Posted February 3, 2015 Author Share Posted February 3, 2015 How about something like this: VLC Media Player Portable | PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB, portable and cloud drives It doesn't look like it plays FLAC. Link to comment
kumakuma Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 It doesn't look like it plays FLAC. That's unfortunate. I'm pretty sure the normal version of VLC plays FLAC files. There's a bunch more on this page: http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
AlainGr Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 I have used VLC under certain circumstances and it works find. I checked and it includes FLAC among a lot of other formats. So all should work as you wish with your music hard drive Edt: here is the link that shows all supported formats: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html Alain Link to comment
500Homeruns Posted February 3, 2015 Author Share Posted February 3, 2015 Thanks guys! I will give it a try. Link to comment
500Homeruns Posted February 4, 2015 Author Share Posted February 4, 2015 I have VLC loaded and it works great at my work office! It is even able to play my 192/24 FLAC files. Link to comment
kumakuma Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 I have VLC loaded and it works great at my work office! It is even able to play my 192/24 FLAC files. I'm glad it works. Thanks for letting us know. Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
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