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[BUG] ffprobe missing

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
55/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
docker, dockerfile
Domain
devops

Research direction

Start by inspecting the Dockerfile's Alpine package-install step and how the Sonarr container is built. Reproduce the reported runtime error and verify whether ffprobe is present in the resulting image. Done means the container provides ffprobe and the reported DetectSample error no longer occurs.

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Current Behavior

Noticed recently some errors:

[Error] DetectSample: Failed to get runtime from the file, make sure ffprobe is available

Probably related to Sonarr 4.0.19.2979 (2026-06-26) that "Bump FFprobe to 5.1.10".

Visibly it's missing ffprobe entirely (apk add ffmpeg)

Expected Behavior

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Steps To Reproduce

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Environment
- OS:
- How docker service was installed:
CPU architecture

x86-64

Docker creation
N/A
Container logs
See above
Dominant language
Dockerfile
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