Are you every going to implement Airplay?

#1

I installed my RS250A on June 13, 2023. I primarily intended to use this for streaming music from my iTunes Library (on a Windows 11 PC) to the RS250A via Airplay. It seemed to work fine until I discovered that it would not “sync” with any of my other Airplay devices. As a reminder, one of the underlying tenants of Airplay is that you can sync the audio output of multiple devices. This was true for Airplay 1 and Airplay 2. The fact that the RS20A would not sync made me suspect that Hi Fi Rose’s implementation of Airplay was flawed. On January 30, 2024 (about six months after delivery of RS250A) I updated the OS to 4.17.04. Airplay from the Windows PC to the RS250A continued to work but still would not sync. On December 3, 2024, I updated the OS to 5.7.07 (about 1.5 years after delivery of the RS250A). After the OS update, I got the following message on iTunes: “The AirPlay device “Rose-05” is not compatible with this version of iTunes.” I still get that message today, which is another 4 months since the device was delivered. In spite of the owner’s manual saying the following: “Streaming - Airplay”

I have owned the RS250A for one-year and nine months and Airplay has never worked properly. It currently doesn’t work at all from a Windows based version of iTunes.

Are you ever going to properly implement Airplay on this device? If so, do you have any timetable for this implementation? If not, I am going to sell it.

Very frustrated.

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#2

Airplay 2 works great on my RS250a I’ve had for a year.

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#3

Is that from Windows or Apple? Airplay from my iPad works fine. This is an iTunes on Windows problem.

#5

In my case, I can see all of my devices, including the RS250A, but I can’t connect to it. I can connect to all of my other devices.

#6

Apple devices. I now see your speaking specifically windows devices.

#7

Thank you once again for bringing this issue back to the attention of Rose. As we have discussed before I have the same problem resulting from the software updates you mentioned. Rose should really be embarrassed that they cannot implement Airplay correctly. It was working just fine until they broke it with the software update. My Rose player is useless to me at this point and I do not use it any longer. I cannot manage my music library (20,000 songs) with anything that Rose offers. If I was able to drag and drop Playlists into the Rose from iTunes then my problems would be alleviated but still not a perfect solution. Maybe they can roll me back to the old software version. I doubt that they will even comment as they have been ignoring this as if it does not exist.

#9

I agree that Apple is the root of many problems and I was hoping that the Rose system would be an easy way to escape the Apple ecosystem for good. I guess I will have to research using Roon. I just do not want to recreate all the existing playlists I have on iTunes manually. I need an automated system to recreate all my playlists on Rose or Roon.

#10

I also agree that Apple is now a big part of the problem. I too have about 20,000 tracks and I certainly don’t want to lose these. I tried the “free trial” version of Roon and also had connection issues with some of my Airplay devices. I also didn’t like the way it handled Compilations. If I had a compilation CD (like a movie soundtrack), Roon broke the CD up into groups of songs. Unfortunately, I’ll probably have to revisit Roon in the future. I would like to use iTunes (on the PC) as long as I can. If Hi Fi Rose would implement Airplay for both Apple Music (on an Apple device) and iTunes (on a PC), this would give me more time to find a replacement. I have read some reviews of Apple Music on a PC and there seems to be a lot of issues.