yes, the denon manual says it plays flac files.

Windows media player does not natively play flac files. I had to download patch/hack for it to play flac files.

I was then able to add the flac files to my music library along with all of my mp3s. I went to library-> media sharing and made sure that wmp recognized the denon and that media sharing was enabled.

The denon can see the mp3 and flac files, but i can only play the mp3's. It does not recognize the flac files as a music file (even though wmp can play them with the patch.)

I think it may be due to the fact that wmp can not natively play flac files. maybe the patch i found only allowed it to play flac files and not share them properly.

Anyway, I need to either
a.) find out how to share flac files with wmp
or
b.) find some other media sharing software that will share flac files.

to answer your question the denon gui is very slick. I like it a lot.


-David