Winamp and other good quality stand alone music playing software offer native support for FLAC, Wavpack and Ape files. Some versions need a free, tiny piece of software to do it. I personally find Windows Media Player to be an inconvenient music player; it is certainly not a specialist at music.

I do not think Sony/Phillips - the developers - will ever enable DSD playback. SACD was designed as an anti piracy system, and Sony will not authorize a digital out for even the dumbed down files on the disc you buy. A pity, as the DSD files may be huge but they probably rival analogue master tapes in information and naturalness.

Clark