m4a (aac 256k) not plying on

Roon Core Machine

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Description of Issue

m4a is not playing on any client with Roon (Sonos and iPad). Nothing happens.

Roon ARC plays the fies fine (streaming and download)

Welcome to the forum. Where is your core running, is it Rock or a Linux server? In this case you may have to install ffmpeg to provide the necessary codecs. On a Linux distribution, install them with the usual package manager. On ROCK, you have to do it manually:

If this is not it, then I don’t know what the issue might be, but there are other threads that may be helpful. In these threads, other people seem to be able to play m4a. Maybe you find something there, e.g.,

Hey @Joerg_Weingaertner,

Following up on @Suedkiez’s helpful note, are you still running into issues here?

I’ll be monitoring this thread for your reply :+1:

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