AAC not working on QNAP

[Chris_Bowie]

I’ve found that MP3 streams are working for me, but AAC are not?

[BrianW (Brian)]

Hello @Chris_Bowie , is the problem just for Radio Paradise or all aac streams?

Can you play
95bfm (flac)
CJSW (aac)
WRFG (mp3)

What are you running the core on?

[Chris_Bowie]

Hi Brian, QNAP NAS for my core. 95bfm FLAC worked fine, CJSW AAC stream did not work at all, WRFG worked no problem. Is it related to my core do you think?

Also, I have been trying to add a brand new radio station in the UK, called “Boom”, but not listed in the database, I reached out to their help desk and was given a URL streaming link, but when trying to add it as a radio station I get an error too?

[BrianW (Brian)]

@Chris_Bowie

Is it related to my core do you think?

Yes. See this thread

Roon Server on QNAP QTS 4.5.1 Situation

Hello everyone, I was trying to figure out an issue with QNAP’s QTS 4.5.1 in the last days. The situation with QTS 4.5.1 is, that it is shipped with a version of ffmpeg, that does not support AAC decoding/encoding, which results in the inability to play AAC encoded files or radio streams in Roon. [qts-4.5.1-ffmpeg] Today I received a message from QNAP: Our RD team has told us the way to resolve this issue is to use CAYIN MSP’s ffmpeg. The path for CAYIN’s ffmpeg is below: CAYIN MSP’s ffm…

@crieke has very kindly offered to help if you can’t carry out the fix yourself.

A propos Boom, see the bit at the bottom of this post

[Chris_Bowie]

Thanks Brian! Boom working now and reading through what I need to do with ffmpeg…thanks for speedy response!

[Chris_Bowie]

All good now, managed to do the SSH stuff and AAC streams now working great thanks

[BrianW (Brian)]

Good to hear, impressive fixing.