Is there any more detail available on how the cache in the RS130 works?
The announcement says “the feature automatically operates during music playback, and when caching is complete, a cache icon is displayed for the corresponding audio”.
I thought this meant that any track played from the network or a local disk would be cached and played from there, That doesn’t seem to be the case. The first few tracks I played after setting up the network ink showed the “c” symbol but none subsequently.
Thanks Rosehan
So it has to be enabled per service, and is only currently available on those 2? My misunderstanding.I’d thought anything played over the network by Rose Connect would automatically use it. My mistake.
As a matter of interest, where do those pages come from?
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Alan
Is it really true that caching works only for this two services and not in general? HiFi Rose is advertising this as a key feature for superior sound. That will be very disappointing. Hopefully HiFi Rose can improve this later on with SW updates, otherwise it‘s waste the hardware they invest into the RS130.
I THINK that the cacheing that Rosehan is referring to has been available for a while on any of the streamers that have internal or external storage. It’s referred to in the release notes for Rose OS 4.2 which pre-dates the RS130.
That’s very different to the automatic caching that the 128 GB SSD in the RS130 is supposed to offer. I don’t think it’s working on mine currently - if I disconnect the network cable playback stops after a few seconds. I’m sure though I saw the smack green “c” symbol next to the network chain icon earlier. Is this supposed to be working currently? If so, havve I done something to disable it, and if so, how do I re-enable it?
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Alan
I think ROSE has to clarify the differences between Rosetube / Tidal Caching (only with internal / external storage???) and automatic Caching (only with internal NVME SSD).
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Could you clarify this two Caching questions?
Because ROSE Staff won‘t clarify this, I did my own tests. Was very interesting and satisfying.
Setup (very simplified): Rose Connect App <> RS130 <> LAN <> Music Library on NAS
Starting a whole High-Res album (1TB), disconnect LAN cable, the whole album was played.
Starting another High-Res album (3TB), a lot of data loading at the beginning, after that no more network traffic, but album was still playing.
During playing music there was no network traffic from RS130, also with attached LAN cable (except at the beginning for buffering data).
On RS130 occurred a network error message, which could be closed and the Rose Connect App was not reachable any more, but music was played all the time.
It looks like that Rose Connect loads the whole album into cache SSD (or memory?) and plays the music from local storage (Cache SSD or memory?). That’s really clever and makes use of the impressive HW of the RS130.
My old Auralic Aries G2 did something similar called memory cache, but only for one song (because of memory limitations) and not the whole album.
So this are good news, the SSD hardware inside the RS130 is used and not only for marketing…
That ties in with my experience. It also appears that anything you play is retained in the cache so if you play it again later it’s played straight from cache, until the cache is full - around 500 rebook cds worth - after which the oldest are discarded.
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