How did you managed to install the missing codecs please ? Or you don’t care because you don’t have some mp3 remaining in your library ?
Most of my files are Flac but I do have some mp3.
I have resolved my issue and now my VM machine is fully functional with Codecs working.
I am copying the ffmpeg file from a Linux VM to ROCK VM and previously was connected as anonymous to the SMB share. Althougth the file was looking like copied, ROCK did not took it in account.
This time I connected to the SMB ROCK share using my Windows Host account details. I have copied the ffmpeg file and this time ROCK took it in account and I am all OK with all codecs installed!
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I’m running a roon core on a nvme drive as an Ubuntu server VM inside a server running Unraid. My music is on a separate ssd drive. Everything is very snappy. I use the box for lots of other things (Plex, geeky stuff). If anyone wants to consolidate to a single do it all machine, I’d really recommend using Unraid! It can run docker containers too, I went the vm route just for more of a traditional deploy and simple backups. Everything also syncs to the backblaze cloud for pretty cheap money so if the box dies I get an easy restore. Just in case it helps anybody else looking for a similar solution.
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I’ve just bought a 10th Gen i5 and whacked 32 GB RAM + 500GB NVME in it for this purpose. 
While I’m tempted to go the ROCK route, it seems that it’s likely asking for trouble doing it in Unraid. What specs are on your machine @IainB? And it sounds like you went with Ubuntu server, but did you consider/try using Ubuntu Core?
Hi @Nic
I’ve got an AMD 2600 with 64GB RAM. It really does do a bit of everything as I work in IT and run vms, containers etc… I didn’t consider Ubuntu core as I used the roon server installer script and thought the chances of it working on core with it was slim. I only have the Ubuntu server running with 2 cpus and 2GB ram, and it seems plenty. I do stream from tidal mostly so don’t have a massive personal library. But, a VM is working great. I didn’t go down the rock route as I didn’t really see a benefit, I guess it is a Linux system under the hood and would install fine in a VM, but perhaps there are some weird issues as it expects to be installed on a native piece of hardware. But yeah, simple and vanilla VM install is working for me. I definitely haven’t overcomplicated anything! To me it just installed and runs like anything else, nothing mystical about it. I haven’t touched it since. Hope that helps.
I used Ubuntu 19.09 LTS and I think I had to install these dependencies first.
sudo apt install curl ffmpeg cifs-utils -y
Super helpful, thanks so much!
My current status is “can’t even get Unraid to boot”, but hopefully I’ll be over that speedbump soon enough.
after jumping my core from many physical and virtual machines I think I got to the right place, 2cpu 4gb ram Ubuntu server 20 VM running as a FreeNAS VM. Later on today I will lower the RAM to 2gb as I do see no need of the 4GB, ZFS cache will do better use of it.
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Running a Older Dell XPS PC via Linux OS “MX Linux”, Inside the OS using Oracle Virtual Box.
Oracle VB loads Dietpi Linux that in turn is running Roon Bridge and Roon Extensions. The Roon Core, Settings/Audio pipes Roon Sound to this endpoint via the VB Dietpi and I can use it as a endpoint.
I used Mike Plugge Web Controller for the extensions. See this link for the details
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rPdoc2LAvgsF7cCq_3buUWvKORVbEw-o/view
Thanks goes out to this roon user: armandhammer absolutly brilliant stuff.
All I did was installed Roon Bridge inside Dietpi.
Why? I could not install Roon Bridge in MX directly No Systemd in Debian MX. So Oracle VirtualBox was the remedy. The more I use this stuff the more I like it. This is nuts…VB runs Sun-Solaris too.
I’ve got 3 Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS VMs (VMware) running on a 2018 Mac mini (Core i7, 16GB RAM). One of the VMs is dedicated to my Roon Core.
I am on a Roon trial and I am running Roon in a docker on Unraid and it has been running flawlessly for over a week.
I am hopeful that Roon is running a Black Friday sale???
I like what Roon is doing for my library and Tidal subscription so far.