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.

#4

I never knew you could Airplay from iTunes on Windows PC. I just loaded up iTunes on my Windows PC. I can see all my devices except my RS-130. I have used Airplay from my iPad to the RS-130 before. Based on what I see, I agree with you that it’s broken.

#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.

#8

The biggest problem is Apple Music. They want to be proprietary and don’t integrate well with other platforms. I used iTunes for years and had an iPod. If Rose wanted to offer Apple Music that works correctly with Android they would need to use Apple Music’s android.

Rose is a startup company with music streaming equipment. I was so frustrated with their app that I purchased a lifetime subscription to Roon. I have Bluesound and Rose and this allows me to use 1 app. This was more cost effective than selling the RS130 and purchasing another high end streamer.

As far as Apple Music goes, I use Apple Music in my car for new music discovery. I’m not very committed to Apple Music but it’s good for finding new music. I use Tidal along with my music library on my Roon server with Rose. There’s no perfect streamer and most high end streamers use Airplay for access to Apple Music.

Apple Music hijacked my iTunes on Windows and I can use my subscription on my pc. I have almost my entire music collection ripped to AAC through iTunes that I don’t even use. I ripped all my cds to wav, flac, and alac.

#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.