[Python] Unexpected error: No such file or directory: 'ffprobe', while using pydub in Digital...

I have an app that processes audio files and converts them to 'wav' format. This works locally on my Mac, however in DigitalOcean, when recording audio, i get the below error, followed by a 500:

warn("Couldn't find ffprobe or avprobe - defaulting to ffprobe, but may not work", RuntimeWarning) Unexpected error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'ffprobe'

I've tried including binary files in my code for ffmpeg and ffprobe but got the same error. ffmpeg and ffprobe binaries are in /bin in the root of my project:

from pydub import AudioSegment

if platform.system() == "Darwin": # mac
pass
elif platform.system() == "Linux": # digitalocean)
AudioSegment.converter = os.path.join("bin", "ffmpeg-linux")
AudioSegment.ffprobe = os.path.join("bin", "ffprobe-linux")
else:
raise EnvironmentError(
"Unsupported platform. Only macOS and Linux are supported.")

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