File imports skipped due to "File is corrupt" errors

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Roon Core Machine

ROCK Version 2.0 (build 1234) production
INTEL NUC11PAHi7 Four-Core i7 1165G7 - Up to 4.7 GHz Turbow/32GB RAM and 1TB SSD

Networking Gear & Setup Details

Wired connection via TP-LINK Deco XE75 Pro

Connected Audio Devices

Various Airplay speakers - HomePods and HomePod Minis

Number of Tracks in Library

32647 tracks

Description of Issue

USB SSD storage device with music files connected directly to ROCK. When importing music I get “File is corrupt” messages for dozen of the files. I can go to the file on the storage device and play the file on my Mac with no issues. I was initially running Roon on my Mac Min, and imported my music library into Roon with no corrupted files. I have tried multiple copies to the external SSD and re-import of my music library, but still get corruption errors on files. I can take that SSD with the music files on it and connect it to my Mac mini and play the so-called corrupted files with no problem.

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With no response from Roon support, I decided to try transcoding the “corrupt” mp3 files to FLAC format. This resolved ALL of the “file corrupt” error message. Wondering if there is some bug in Roon causing some files to be flagged as corrupt? The identified files played just fine as mp3s in every other app that I tried them in.

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Did you add the Codec into your ROCK installation?

It could also be that the MP3 encoding was “unusual”. It’s been noted before:

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I installed the ffmpg CODEC as documented. I would suspect a missing CODEC if ROCK hadn’t been able to import the other 32,000+ mp3 files in my music library.

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So it’s likely to be the encoding of the “corrupt” files then. I’ve had a few of those myself.

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