Why Bluetooth audio is a pain to use on Linux
by joboy from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6QG26)
When Bluetooth was first introduced on cell phones, it was supposed to replace the Infrared for short range data transfer beside streaming audio. I used the DUN profile to share my cell phone mobile network with Linux and worked fine, but the audio side was and still is a pain to use today.
I am running Linux Mint Debian, and connected to my BT headsets for playback audio, that worked but will randomly disconnect. Not only that, when the BT audio is interrupted it will stop Youtube playback as well. Sometimes when there's problem on the BT playback, I restart the headsets and it will reconnect, but sometimes that didn't work, so I will restart the BT on the PC side, but it always did not respond and keep waiting with a MS Win like no response popup, I couldn't stop that can't even find the service that on TOP. Then I rebooted the system, but it held up for a few minutes just to wait for the 'blueman' to stop. What's going on here, why is BT still a mess on Linux after all these years !? the problem is on all BT sets I used.
I am running Linux Mint Debian, and connected to my BT headsets for playback audio, that worked but will randomly disconnect. Not only that, when the BT audio is interrupted it will stop Youtube playback as well. Sometimes when there's problem on the BT playback, I restart the headsets and it will reconnect, but sometimes that didn't work, so I will restart the BT on the PC side, but it always did not respond and keep waiting with a MS Win like no response popup, I couldn't stop that can't even find the service that on TOP. Then I rebooted the system, but it held up for a few minutes just to wait for the 'blueman' to stop. What's going on here, why is BT still a mess on Linux after all these years !? the problem is on all BT sets I used.