"Error: Missing codec after adding ffmpeg to Roon OS" (ref#YGB8WW)

[BlackJack]

Sounds to me like it could be this one:

Unable to play m4a, mp3

A few days ago I purchased a NUC to install Rock. Before that i used to run Roon server from a Windows computer and I played my complete library containing flac, m4a, mp3, dsd files. Now I can only play flac files from my NUC. I throughout the problem was the codec ffmpeg. I copied the files several times from different Linux an Windows computers to the codec directory, but the problem still continued. The Roon core still gives the massage that the codecs are missing. I searched this forum b…

Ffmpeg not executable

That did it - the device web page recognized it almost immediately, and MP3s playing happily (wife likes the radio function, I never listen to mp3s of course ) so - “download with windows, use 7zip to uncompress the file, the use 7zip to untar the bundle, use windows explorer pointed at “\ROCK\Data\Codecs” and copy/paste ffmpeg to the directory - don’t try in linux” that seems to work - maybe ROON might update the specific directions as such - Thanks for the idea and help - …