When connecting external bluetooth speaker, bluetooth connection is established, but it is not listed in the sound options. It becomes listed only when pulseaudio is restarted. Even then only the low quality codec is working, the high quality is selectable from a droplist, but not activated when selected. Similar bug was reported numerous times for the previous version of ubuntu, but it seems it is not fixed, if it is the same.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: alsa-base 1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-13.20-generic 3.11.6
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: felipe 3121 F.... pulseaudio
Date: Mon Nov 25 23:37:38 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-17 (192 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64+mac (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Symptom: audio
Title: Bluetooth sound card not detected
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-18 (38 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 08/08/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MBP91.88Z.00D3.B08.1208081132
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag#
dmi.board.name: Mac-6F01561E16C75D06
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.board.version: MacBookPro9,2
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Mac-6F01561E16C75D06
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMBP91.88Z.00D3.B08.1208081132:bd08/08/2012:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro9,2:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-6F01561E16C75D06:rvrMacBookPro9,2:cvnAppleInc.:ct10:cvrMac-6F01561E16C75D06:
dmi.product.name: MacBookPro9,2
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.
This is reported against an old version of Ubuntu and many things has changed since then. Because of that we won't fix this issue however if this behavior repeats on a modern version please fill a bug report against it and we will take it from there.