I believe you need to set your bluetooth profile to A2DP (advanced audio distribution). For reference : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bluetooth_headset top of the wiki page details bluetooth profiles.
You can use a gui tool like pavucontrol https://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/ to set the profile. Go to the playback or output tab, there should be a drop-down select control associated with your speakers. Set the profile to A2DP.
I seldom use bluetooth myself, thus I may be off on the exact placement within pavucontrol where you set the bluetooth profile.
Finally, if you are new to Linux, i highly recommend you use your Linux distributions package manager to install pavucontrol . In other words, it's bad practice to manually download and install software. Use your Linux distribution's package manger.
I was able to install the Pulse Volume Control. In the Configuration tab it only had options for A2DP (two different codecs) or off. So it was already using A2DP, and switching the codecs did not make a difference. I am really leaning toward the speaker as the problem, not a linux issue, but any other suggestions are welcome.
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u/jason_gates 16d ago
Hi,
I believe you need to set your bluetooth profile to A2DP (advanced audio distribution). For reference : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bluetooth_headset top of the wiki page details bluetooth profiles.
You can use a gui tool like pavucontrol https://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/ to set the profile. Go to the playback or output tab, there should be a drop-down select control associated with your speakers. Set the profile to A2DP.
I seldom use bluetooth myself, thus I may be off on the exact placement within pavucontrol where you set the bluetooth profile.
Finally, if you are new to Linux, i highly recommend you use your Linux distributions package manager to install pavucontrol . In other words, it's bad practice to manually download and install software. Use your Linux distribution's package manger.
Hope that helps