I tried a longer file (e.g. A full 3 minute song). All that happens is that the play light on the speaker stays lit for a long time but no sound. Oddly enough, I had to use a wav file. An mp3 wouldn¹t load at all. On 5/31/15, 6:17 AM, "Tanu Kaskinen" <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote: >Sounds like the kernel is just not consuming any data in the bluetooth >socket. > >If paplay talks about draining, it means that it reached the end of the >file. Is the file very short? Could you try with a longer file? I don't >expect that to work any better, but at least that will rule out the >possibility that it's only the draining that is failing in paplay. No idea what all this means. Device information as shown by bluetoothctl says that it¹s a headset. Why isn¹t all of this plug & play? If I pair somebody else¹s speaker, why should I have to dink around with low-level settings? > >>The device rate is 8000, so the active bluetooth profile is HSP/HFP. Is >that what you want to use? "Bluetooth speaker" sounds like something >that you would rather use with the A2DP profile. You can switch the >profile with "pactl set-card-profile CARDNAME a2dp_sink".
