Sound in FLAC format continues to fail in Windows 10 October 2018 Update and Microsoft knows it

Continue the never-ending story with the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, the most problematic update for Windows 10 since it hit the market. And it is that with the last _update_ the users who listen to music in FLAC format will suffer an important failure.

The turn of the year has not served to end the bugs with the last major update from Microsoft and Windows 10 continues to generate too many headachesto the company based in Redmond.

FLAC is the acronym for Free Lossless Audio Codec, or what is the same, a licensed open format audio format free of copyright that by means of a specific audio codec, allows digital audio to be compressed without loss with a reduction of up to 50 or 60% of its original size and all without losing any type of information. Also, like MP3, the most popular format, FLAC has support for metadata tagging, including album art, and quick search.

With Windows 10 October 2018 Update, users who use music tracks in FLAC format encounter a problem related to metadata corruptionif the songs or audio tracks use names that are too long. Therefore, the complete information does not appear even if the file is correctly labeled.

This is a bug that is still present and was already known in Windows 10 April 2018 Update. The problem also lies in the fact that the October 2018 Update is still present and another extra bug is added that causes applications such as Windows Media Player or Groove to not play the first minute of an audio track found in a list. Something that Microsoft already knows about and that apparently they fix in the builds of the 19H1 branch.

What is most striking about the matter is, how they say in MSPU, that Microsoft does not cite this ruling as an error to be corrected Among the known issues for Windows 10 October 2018 Update when it was present. One way of proceeding is raising user complaints in the platform's forums.

If you want to use your updated Windows 10 PC to listen to music, you'll most likely use MP3, but it also becomes a more appropriate option than using FLAC format, at least as long as Microsoft does not fix the bug present in Windows 10.