I've given up and sold my RS130

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#1

OK. Today I have finally given up and sold my RS130.

The hardware is good but the native software is frankly appalling and shows no signs of the fundamental improvements needed being actioned. Major bugs or shortfalls are never addressed, such as the ability to filter by Album Artist rather than just Artist. As has been mentioned elsewhere, some of the decision trees are baffling - clearing the current queue takes four or five keypresses with two Confirmations. It’s been suggested that software development was outsourced, which might explain a lot.

Release management is also shambolic. The latest Early Access version claims to have the ability to do
DLNA playback but there’s no mention of this in the menus and do explanation of how to activate it anywhere. An early release just stopped all USB DACs from being recognised so the testing regime is insufficient, and support have stated they’re adding stuff right up to the point of release which is appalling practice.

The support team on here are well meaning but do not seem to have the technical knowledge to address issues, nor the ability to pressure the development team into action.

I really wanted to like the Rose but it’s only really usable as a Roon endpoint and then, despite what Boris believes, there’s a sound quality penalty.

Regretfully, farewell.

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#2

Alas, it is only in your imagination. And that would have been only in the case that 130 could affect the sound quality in any way, which is absolutely impossible.

Software is pretty bad though, even if you could play DLNA with official release software. But people buying something like a 130 can’t really be expected to do any kind of loigcal thinking.

#3

I thought about selling mine too but you end up taking a hit and losing money when you sell audio equipment. I have done a comparison between using the Rose app and using as a Roon endpoint. I could hear no difference between the 2. I don’t particularly care for the Apple Music API having no gapless playback. For the Rose playing AAC for AM, it doesn’t sound all that bad, but I bought an Eversolo DMP-A8 since it can run the native Android app in Lossless and Hi Res.

I compared the Rose and Eversolo as Roon endpoints and the Rose sounds slightly better to me. HiFi Huff describes the Eversolo as being a little learner sounding than Rose. I have to agree with him on that.

I hope you find the streamer with the perfect app.

#4

I agree that the software is in parts unusable and gave me question marks about the brand while i enjoy other unexpected functions.

I my case that is simple FLAC files from internal SSD and the inability to read, sort, list and organise tagged files (Artist and Album Artist) (multiple genres, artists, composers and so on there is no separator sign.

The tags are all coming form certified taggers and are officially sanctioned. I compare that to the audio player in windows with which i manage the music.