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.
