Focus RS130's "2025 & early-2026 software enhancements"

ROSE Products RS130
#1

Please, no trolling & no complaints.

  • State your RS130 product problems/complaints & customer support complaints in other Community Topics
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This topic is mainly to:

  • help focus RS130’s software enhancement efforts by recommending the key objectives to achieve by 2025’s year-end ← note: consider suggesting a how-to method or tool, only if you strongly believe it will help expedite development efforts
  • also, suggest objectives to begin development/enhancement in 2025 & to be released early-2026

RS130 Product Goal:

IMO, HiFi Rose RS130 was initially designed to be a hi-end music streamer (RS130 has achieved this: Qobuz, Tidal, Spotify Connect, etc.).

  • Music media playback & media server functions are secondary functions.

  • For this topic, CD Ripping is to be considered as an experimental function.

RS130’s Past Product Issues:

Based on this Community’s Topics/Posts:

  • In 2023, the main user outcry was the extremely slow scan/rescan functions

  • In 2024 & Q1/Q2 2025, the main user outcry has been the inconsistent, non-intuitive Media Playback/Server User Interface & lack of music functions

RS130’s Past Product Improvements:

  • Many reported problems have been fixed (see below)

  • In 2024, the following was achieved:

    • Redesigned database & drastically improved scan/rescan performance

    • Released V5.7.07 ← Fixed 7 problems

    • Access “Classical Music” on Qobuz, Tidal,… ← see [Ver 5.7] ROSE Classic

    • Released many other version updates (for details & problem fixes, see other topics/posts)

  • In Q1 2025 & Q2 2025, the following has been achieved:

    • Released Version 5.9 which provided:

      • Extensive RoseTube improvements including curated playlists

      • (new) Music Streaming Services: Qobuz Connect & Symphony.live

      • DLNA Media Server playback

      • Fixed 39+ problems

      • Can now tap the 3 dots associated with a song in Qobuz or Tidal playlists & then go to Artist or Album

    • Released Version 5.9.05 ← Fixed 6 problems

Planned improvements for Q3 & Q4 of 2025:

  1. Amazon Music support is planned for late 2025

  2. HDMI Passthrough multi-channel support is planned for 2025

  • @ROSEHAN, if possible, please confirm the above two objectives & identify any other objective that you can divulge to the community

What else should be achieved by year-end (6 months):

  • Assume fixes to expedited/critical issues takes precedence over function improvements and new function development

  • Include recommended development/enhancements that need to begin in Q3 or Q4 of 2025 for release in early 2026

  • create one recommended objective per post

    • If you agree with a recommended objective, click the post’s LIKE icon

    • if you disagree, reply to the post and state why or state an alternative

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#2

IMO, To make the RS130’s User Interface intuitive, it needs to have:

  1. a consistent interaction methodology, icons, design,… on all display screens

  2. all reported language issues needs to be fixed

  3. a reasonably simple design such as

    • Home > Music > Choice of: Albums, Artists, Folders, Playlists,…
    • Home > Music Video > Choice of: Albums (ie, Discs), Artists, Folders, Playlists,…
    • Home > Choice of: App, Function,… ← like Qobuz, RoseTube,…
    • alternatively, see FYC: Ideas for future User Interface Upgrades

I’m recommending that #1 & #2 be resolved by year-end.

  1. To help HiFi Rose focus efforts, I will create a new topic, named “RS130 User Inferface - Inconsistent Issues”. Please post inconsistencies in this topic.

  2. To help HiFi Rose focus language issue correction efforts, please post all language issues in the “Language suggestion” topic.

BTW, I’m willing to walkthru all RS130 topics to try to find past reported inconsistencies & language issues ← I’ll post cyberlinks in the above mentioned topics.

#4

HDMI Passthrough feature to automatically permit playback of both surround sound & 3D immersive sound like Dolby Atmos & DTS:X. ← RS130 to automatically direct the audio to the proper port based on the audio’s format (i.e., based on the audio sound being: stereo, surround or 3D immersive)

@ROSEHAN let me know: Is the above automation planned to be done or is this automation not possible?

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#6

Create a Ticket Problem Report function in this Community. Permit user to enter a

  • title
  • urgency (e.g., standard, expedite, critical),
  • product id (e.g., RS130)
  • product function (e.g., RoseTube)
  • description detailing the problem & detailing how to trigger the problem

This function will greatly help both the software developers & users to see:

  • what problems have been reported & still outstanding
  • the problem resolution’s status (i.e., pending review, pending development, cancelled, in-progress, closed).

This function will also reduce the creation of a community topic per issue/problem.

Note to @TomT & @StandardModel ← If I remember correctly, one of you had a recommended tool that HiFi Rose can consider implementing. Please reply to this post and provide the image/cyberlink to the recommended tool. (Thanks, in advance!)

To expedite development, see the tool, shown at About New 'Media Library' (DB scan) - #60 by StandardModel

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#7

On RS130’s left column above Settings, add “Help”. When Help is selected, show one image per display (e.g., Home, Albums, Selected Album Screen, Artists, Selected Artist Screen, etc). On each image, show a line for every icon on the display & describe what the icon does.

  • recommendation: its best to put a number at the end of an icon’s line and then under the image, for each numbered icon, enter a description stating what the icon does.

This will greatly help newcomers & reduce many complaints (like Simply Infuriating).

#8

Once #1 & #2 is achieved (ie, the UIF is consistent & all reported language issues have been addressed) then focus on #3 (ie, Make the User Interface more intuitive) ← to fully achieve this, the User Interface will most probably need to be redesigned/simplified. Hence, plan starting its design/development in Q4 2025 for early-2026 release.

I’ve created a new topic, namely “RS130 User Interface - Simplify & Make UIF More Intuitive”. Your ideas are welcomed. Post your suggestions in this new topic (or message me your ideas, screenshots & recommendations ← I’ll try my best to incorporate your ideas/suggestions/desires).

See this related post: Maybe time for a proper manual? - #9 by joyofmvid

#9

Support YouTube’s Video Playlists via the RoseTube User Interface (currently to access these playlists, I need to manually go to my YouTube Account’s storage)