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Napalm Llama
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 11:23 pm    Post subject: Can't get bluetooth headset working for music playback Reply with quote

OK I know there are a couple of threads about this already in the forum but the information is either not there or out of date.

I've got bluez-4, compiled with USE="alsa", and I've made a .asoundrc like so:
~/.asoundrc:
pcm.bluetooth {
        type bluetooth
        device 00:0D:3C:A0:15:2D
}

ctl.bluetooth {
        type bluetooth
}


When I try and play something, I see this:
Code:
nl@splig ~ $ mplayer -ao alsa:device=bluetooth Caramelldansen.mp3
MPlayer SVN-r29796-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

Playing Caramelldansen.mp3.
Audio only file format detected.
Clip info:
 Title: Caramelldansen (Speedycake Rem
 Artist: Caramell
 Album:
 Year:
 Comment:                               
 Genre: Trance
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: audio/pcm_bluetooth.c:1607:(audioservice_expect) BT_GET_CAPABILITIES failed : Input/output error(5)
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Input/output error
Failed to initialize audio driver 'alsa:device=bluetooth'
Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
Audio: no sound
Video: no video


Exiting... (End of file)


I've tried Googling for that BT_GET_CAPABILITIES error, but nothing useful comes up. I can pair with the headset and l2ping it. What's going wrong?
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PostPosted: Fri May 10, 2013 12:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just had the same problem. The Wiki said
Quote:

Enable the socket in /etc/bluetooth/audio.conf might help

[General]
Enable=Socket


After restarting the bluetooth daemon
/etc/init.d/bluetooth restart
and ALSA
/etc/init.d/bluetooth restart

I was able to music via
mplayer -ao alsa:device=bluetooth <filename>
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