Feature request. Airplay broadcast

ROSE Products RS520
#1

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.

#2

@Smegel

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.

#3

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.

Better integration in to whole home audio.

Again thanks for forwarding the request.

#4

@ROSEHAN

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.

#5

@ROSEHAN

Another reason you may want to consider this…

Besides Airplay, there are other wireless standards like Chromecast or WISA.

Using this technique, you could then expand Rose hardware to support audio streaming to existing wireless speakers.

So you could go from an RS451 to wireless speakers or via a wired out to active speakers.
Or if you wanted to get into ATMOS sound where you’d also have wireless channels it would be easier.

Assuming you wanted to extend into the home theater market… or atmos sound.