No sound when playing AAC files from QNAP NAS in Roon (ref#19LWYG)

[connor]

Hi @John_Hoch,

Please see @Rugby’s response above as you’re most likely facing some limitations with the in-built ffmpeg instance shipped with your current QNAP OS. Also see this, for reference:

Ffmpeg changing from .exe to document

I just wanted to finish up this thread, just in case anyone runs across this and needs a solution. After looking here on the forum for answers and getting on the phone with Qnap support I found out this. The most stable way to have your Roon core on a flash drive plugged into your NAS as an external drive is to plug the drive in and format it from the NAS. I no longer see this drive in my Mac Finder but it’s ability to talk to Roon and to the NAS works perfectly. I have had no problems what so…