Originally Posted by
2Funky
The newest of these files were ripped from CD on a Dell PC using Windows Media Player and Windows 11. I choose the recommended AAC setting which resulted in a .m4a file. I have the ROON core resident on this PC. These files show up and play fine using ROON on the PC but when I try to use Roon ARC on my Android phone they will not play and show "corrupt media". When I re-ripped the files as .mp3 files, the played fine on my phone using ROON arc. I started investigating this on the Roon forum, and got many suggestions that Windows Media player was a very poor choice and that I must have some corrupt encoding data and to switch to dbpoweramp. I then noticed that many of my .m4a files that I had ripped over the years did not show up in Roon when I checked the "Skipped files" tab. This led to the discussion that .m4a files can contain things other than just pure AAC data, so that is when I got on the dbpoweramp forum to see if dbpoweramp could be used as a generic cleaning tool for a batch of files since it is impractical for me at this point to look at each m4a file and determine the problem for Roon ARc. I now suspect that with all the encoders, PCs,rip SW, converters, etc that I have used over the years that I have a jumble of data and it is hopeless to try to get it all sorted out and that I should just listen to the radio! Again thanks for your help but I feel here is no easy solution.