Hi,
While the RS520 can receive and play airplay (airplay2) from Apple devices… one neat feature of airplay is the ability to have an iphone push music to multiple airplay enabled devices. (e.g. multi-room)
It would be nice to have the RS520 be able to push music to another device.
For example playing RoseTube and connecting a TV or another stereo in a different room.
There is AirMusic that is in the Play store that will let Android devices broadcast music to airplay enabled devices.
Not just RoseTube but if you stored music on the local NVMe drive, or if you’ve got a different source connected and you wanted to do multi-room.
Your feature request has been forwarded to our software team.
This is not a simple request and involves a fairly complex implementation. For now, the team will first review whether adding this functionality is technically possible.
Once we receive a decision from them regarding whether this feature can be added or not, we will let you know.
Thank you.
I realize its a huge request, but that it would open the doors to allowing a Rose product like the RS520 or RS451 to also control other systems, including non Rose components in other rooms.
Did a bit more digging.
(Was looking into getting a Macbook to allow for multiple streams.)
The issue is going to be what Airplay drivers are available on Android or that can be backported to Android 7.
In terms of audio quality, I don’t think that’s an issue.
The issue would be what lower level drivers for airplay that already exist or can be back ported to your version of android.
One idea that I had was to have device driver that would present itself as a single endpoint, where you would point to this device and it would then look like a speaker/headphone/output device.
Then under the covers… it would take a list of airplay devices and create a thread for each device in the list… then when an audio stream is playing , it just sends a copy to each thread.
Of course Rose would still send the output to its already set output device.
The tricky part is determining what is already available and what you would have to create.
Also if your CPU is powerful enough to do this. (It should be.)
I think it should be feasible since on the RS520 you’re already have a feature where you’re sending the sound out to both a set of speakers and to a set of RCA jacks (pre-out) at the same time. This would be essentially doing the same thing w airplay too.
Thank you very much for sharing your detailed suggestions and feedback.
Your ideas regarding AirPlay endpoint handling, multi-threaded audio distribution, and support for additional wireless standards such as Chromecast and WISA are technically very interesting and highly appreciated. We also appreciate the time and effort you took to investigate Android driver compatibility and possible implementation approaches.
However, at the moment, there are several technical limitations and development considerations involved, including:
Compatibility with our current Android-based platform
Support and licensing issues related to low-level wireless audio drivers
Synchronization and latency stability across multiple wireless audio outputs
CPU and system resource optimization
Long-term stability and maintenance considerations
For these reasons, we kindly ask for your understanding that we are unable to confirm support or development plans for these features at this time.
I love Dolby Atmos music. I have a solution and Rose is not part of it. I thought it might have been when I made the purchase, but the RS130 does not pass a multichannel signal to an outboard processor even though it says it can.
Seriously, the company is having trouble doing basic streaming let alone going full multichannel AV.
Indeed. If you knew something, it would not be you.
When you entire education has been about womyn studies, or basket weaving, or maybe astrology, then you do listen to equally clueless youtube prostitutes and feel good about yourself…
Tell me you have no idea what a DAC is without… oh, wait, you’ve already told everyone everywhere that you don’t know anything.
They would be the first ones to get GanFET right, but of course they don’t. They are quite mediocre, as are all other Ganfets. Because advantages of Ganfets are for when you are making a phone charger, not for reasonably sized audio amps. Of course realizing that would have required knowing some physics and mikey is categorically opposed to hard sciences.
Ah, riiight. Tell us, how do you port something to an OS it already runs on?
Of course when the only thing you know about computers is that you can find someone even dumber than yourself somewhere on youtube, then yeah, you can huff and puff and pretend that you know something about Android. But we still haven’t found any one thing that you would know anything about.
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