Hi - I've been a big fan of Bluetooth's A2DP (hi-fi audio via a Bluetooth headset) service for quite some time, mostly because of my dislike of wired headphones and the general annoyance that comes with being physically tethered to a desktop or laptop computer when working in a cubical. For quite some time Debian had great A2DP support in the Bluetooth 3.36 packages, but this all changed with the introduction of the 4.x series and the migration of the audio service support from bluez-audio into the bluez-alsa package, which seems to have been broken since creation. There's a bug report that's been out there (maybe the title is a little misleading?) since mid-2009, addressing the issue: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532098 I'm puzzled why this (supposed) bug hasn't received more attention, considering it impacts A2DP and prevents Bluetooth hi-fi audio from working correctly on Debian. MPlayer (as described in the bug report) is just one example. All ALSA-based audio applications produce the same errors. It's got me wondering, do folks out there who have the appropriate headsets actually use Bluetooth hi-fi audio on Linux? Perhaps there is a workaround for this problem that everybody's using, that doesn't appear on any Google searches? Anyone else in the same boat? Any suggestions? - Mark -- Mark Kamichoff prox@prolixium.com http://www.prolixium.com/
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