# Enabling FLAC support for plex web player (browsers support it now)

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/enabling-flac-support-for-plex-web-player-browsers-support-it-now/184169>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [March 12, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/enabling-flac-support-for-plex-web-player-browsers-support-it-now/184169 "2017-03-12T18:16:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/enabling-flac-support-for-plex-web-player-browsers-support-it-now/184169/1 "2017-03-12T18:16:57Z")

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So when you acces plex via a web browser and read a FLAC music file, it actually transcode flac to mp3.

It is because (at the time) browsers (firefox/chrome/IE) didn’t support FLAC natively.

Windows 10 is now supporting FLAC natively and most browsers (firefox/chrome/edge) have integrated native FLAC support.

I think it should be time to enable directplay of those flac files now 🙂

Edit:

It was already asked years ago but at the time it was about creating a plugin to enable such support==\> [https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/127691/prevent-plex-web-from-transcoding-flac-to-mp3#latest](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/127691/prevent-plex-web-from-transcoding-flac-to-mp3#latest)

Should be much more easy to avoid transcoding now with native browsers support.