k-lite

This bug is horrible and totally unacceptable on Microsoft's end.
The KLight Mega Codec pack fixed it for me too, thankfully, but I had to put up with it for a long time before getting that tip.

I thought VLC played these, but maybe that is just on Linux. I haven't had to play this format recently.

oh! so is that what's going on?
I thought my computer was just being a moron!

I have a friend who was experiencing this until he updated his version of K-Lite.
Are we sure that K-Lite isn't causing this issue in the first place, and updating it is the fix?

I ask because this doesn't seem to be a very common problem at all if you Google it.

@Defender
Yep, makes sense. . I thought I'd ask because I can't believe that this kind of bug would persist in Windows for this long, but here we are.

I agree with you in post 9.

The odd thing is I've never encountered it that I'm aware of.

OK, so I tryed this in any combinations I could, with or without winamp, with total commander or with explorer, or just with plain, vanilla open file dialog. Guess what? the issue doesn't happen.
to those affected, do you use jaws or something else than nvda? maybe narator? I can't replicate this, however much I try, I even tryed with a vm...and...no dice.

Jaws user of Windows 10 here. I have never heard of this problem, and have never experienced it, and I've played plenty of .ogg files over the years.
The absolute worst thing that happens is that it takes an extra second or two to load an .ogg file. That's it.
Windows Media Player doesn't play them by default, doesn't even seem to support them, or didn't last time I checked. I downloaded a codec pack that supports the playing of .ogg files, and I've never looked back.

So frankly I'm wondering if there are other variables at play here. I don't know that it's a Windows issue specifically.

That doesn't make any sense though. I've never had this problem, if memory serves. Perhaps MS never fixed it because its a bug that's very difficult to reproduce, or only happens under very specific conditions and on very specific setups? I really don't know

Before I downloaded the codec pack, there were no freezes. It would just say that Windows Media Player did not support the file type. That's not a freeze. That's incompatibility. I would just hit "okay", and move on with my day. So no. In my case, I'm afraid not.

This is what I mean when I say it's got to be more than just a Windows 10 issue. Some of you are experiencing it, some of us are not.

So awhile back I brought back this topic and ended up deleting my post. Well here I have confirmed it is the same issue, so rewriting it. Sometimes when I browse ogg files in goldwave,, the program crashes. I don't even have to preview. I just load a folder of ogg files, and it will crash. For no reason! I thought at first it was keybase, but nope. I copied a folder over from keybase to my C drive just to make sure. Same thing happens. So did k-lite screw up the explorer dialogue in goldwave? Somehow, goldwave is the only program I have found that does this. And this is well, super annoying because the whole electronic game library, is in ogg format. Along with other sound folders, and music. In fact, most the files I work with are ogg. The size and number of items in the folder is completely irrelevant. It fails to load folders of 3 mono ogg files. SO that gives you an idea of how bad this is. I literally have to task kill the program.
It looks to me like the folders it has visited in the temporary cache, it doesn't freeze on, but of course, that means each time I go into a new folder after restarting my computer, it freezes. Obviously, this is not acceptable.