Roon 1.8 – no sound while playing, Songs not playing at all, not core settings available

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There seem to be a lot of issues there and it is unclear to the reader how sperate or interlocking they are.
The AAC issue is probably due to QNAP making a mistake in their OS recently. They shipped the wrong version of the required codec package that won’t allow you to play aac.
This thread is about that.

Roon Server on QNAP QTS 4.5.1 Situation

Hello everyone, I was trying to figure out an issue with QNAP’s QTS 4.5.1 in the last days. The situation with QTS 4.5.1 is, that it is shipped with a version of ffmpeg, that does not support AAC decoding/encoding, which results in the inability to play AAC encoded files or radio streams in Roon. [qts-4.5.1-ffmpeg] Today I received a message from QNAP: Our RD team has told us the way to resolve this issue is to use CAYIN MSP’s ffmpeg. The path for CAYIN’s ffmpeg is below: CAYIN MSP’s ffm…

Problem 3. What client are you using?