How Rosi works

Built for the operational realities of commercial venues

Not a consumer app wearing a business badge, but a playback platform engineered from the start for multi-zone venues, patchy connections, and staff who have better things to do than babysit a sound system.

Capabilities

What the platform actually does

Windows & Linux playback

A service-based engine on standard hardware. No proprietary appliance to buy, replace or be held hostage by.

Web-based control

Playlists, schedules, zones and reporting managed from a browser, at the venue or from head office.

Mobile apps, real permissions

Native iOS and Android control with role-based access per user, venue and zone. The duty manager and head office see different buttons.

Unlimited zone scaling

No software zone limits; hardware sets the ceiling (typically 32 outputs per machine), and machines cluster to 60+ zones.

LUFS-aware level control

Live loudness measurement with a transparent four-band compressor and limiter, holding decades of recordings at one comfortable level.

GPS & weather-aware rules

Location-triggered announcements and weather-driven programming shifts, like sunshine playlists when the terrace fills up.

The Rosi zone playlist scheduler showing a week of programmed background music
The zone scheduler, exactly as your team sees it: a week of programming at a glance.
Reliability

The feature operators care about most

Music playing from local storage, zones that operate independently, and central diagnostics that usually spot a failing machine before the venue does. We measure 99.9%+ uptime at the zone level, because "the server was up" means nothing if the terrace went quiet.

Content updates arrive as compressed, deduplicated packages (a typical week is a few megabytes per venue), so the system works over broadband, satellite or mobile connections without drama.

99.9%+
zone-level uptime
32
audio outputs per machine
60+
zones in live installations
AES-XTS
library encryption at rest
Integration

Works with the audio you already own

Standard line-level outputs, WASAPI/ASIO on Windows, ALSA on Linux, and Dante audio-over-IP for networked installations. Rosi feeds QSC, Symetrix, BSS, Crown, Bose and whatever else your integrator specified, with no speaker replacement and no proprietary appliances.

Integrated digital signage runs from the same scheduler as the music: retail promotions, cruise wayfinding, gym class boards and hospitality screens, controlled alongside the sound rather than bolted on. A reporting API feeds play-out and uptime data into your own dashboards.

Rosi background music software running on a standard laptop in a venue
Dante audio-over-IPAES3Analogue line-levelWASAPI / ASIOALSAQSCSymetrixBSSCrownBoseDigital signageReporting API
Deployment

Three shapes, one platform

Single venue

One machine, 1-4 zones

A café, salon or shop. Installed and playing in under a day, then it looks after itself.

Large venue

Clustered, 20-60+ zones

Hotels, resorts and cruise ships running multiple playback machines as one coordinated system.

Multi-site estate

Central dashboard, every branch

Chains, groups and fleets managed from one place, with role-based local control per site.

Want to see how it works?

We'll walk you through the platform on a call, or set up a demo in your venue, usually within the working week.