You’ve already lost your money (and mine, too), so stop wasting your time asking 2 poor employees (ROSEHAN & ROSELEA ) for new features or improvements. They can’t do anything for you, and their only instructions are to stall (counting on you to give up) and make amends by using that characteristic asian tone of false benevolence and comprehesion, without ever answering your requests with any precision or providing any concrete (and legitimate) solutions.
For my part, I bought an RS250 4 days ago, and I’m surprised that some owners of this unit (or of any other product with the same software - i.e. the entire HiFi Rose catalog) are deluding themselves after so many months (or even years) of hoping for the slightest improvement in the user experience of these products. What did you get in return for your feedback and suggestions? The outright deletion of certain functions (podcasts, radios, even though these are still listed as integrated on the manufacturer’s website), the growing instability of the few remaining services (Qobuz, Tidal…), the vacuity of others (RoseTube? What a joke!).
The user experience, as provided by HiFi Rose, simply can’t evolve for 2 frontal reasons (and many more lateral ones):
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Tragic undersizing of the hardware platform in computing terms
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Inherent limitation of Android 7.1, which was not chosen for the sake of optimization (or resource conservation), contrary to the beliefs of certain fanatics (or more accurately: profiles incapable of imagining that they’d spend such a sum of money on a thing like this, cognitive dissonance - and a touch of Stockholm syndrome doing the rest of the indoctrination work). The reason for this totally obsolete ‘technical’ choice is much more down-to-earth: it was on this system that Citech built its digital signage and interactive totems solution, which was recycled to create the HiFi Rose brand. Yes, it’s recycling, and yes, it gives you a real idea of what you’re entitled to expect in terms of specific development.
But all is not lost. In 4 days, I’ve discovered many secrets about Rose HiFi equipment, in particular the existence of a more or less functional API that will have enabled me to create a replacement interface for Rose Connect ‘premium’, and to find a way of making this platform work more or less decently via Home Assistant :
If you’re interested in what I’ve discovered, let me know and I’ll be happy to send you the essential REST commands for remote control of a Rose player (and many other surprises…). If, on the other hand, my post provokes indignation and name-calling, then good luck with your acquisition, I don’t really have time to waste either. Incidentally, you should be aware that the reason for the growing dissatisfaction among HiFi Rose owners is mainly due to the arrival of EVERSOLO on the market, which has somewhat redefined what was reasonable to expect from a specialized audio platform developed under Android. That said, this new ‘benchmark’ is far from faultless (I briefly had a DMP-A6 Master Edition in my hands before the RS250).
Greetings to all
