AptX and AptX HD unavailable as Bluetooth audio quality options

[Avamander]

Current situation:

When one connects a Bluetooth audio device, at best one can choose between "Headset Head Unit (HSP/HFP)" and "High Fidelity Playback (A2DP Sink)". That is sad when the audio device supports AptX or AptX HD.

Expected situation:

One can select AptX or AptX HD as the Bluetooth audio output profile.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I'm not sure AptX would appear in the GUI or it would be hidden behind the high fidelity option. So even if the feature was supported already we wouldn't know.

This needs more investigating. Please report the issue to the related upstream projects at:

PulseAudio: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/groups/pulseaudio/-/issues

BlueZ: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/

Gnome Control Center: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

In progress here:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/227

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/1:15.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu1

[Nobuto Murata (nobuto)]

From a duplicate of this bug, as tldr:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1939933
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=991597
> > > Does that mean that enabling it, would only add some dependencies but
> > > not actually do anything?
> >
> > Yes, a (soft) dependency should probably be added against
> > gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad, but as I said, the needed version (>= 1.19) is
> > not yet in debian
>
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/-/commit/b916522382aaa33f216636a292e97cd769ac4093
> > 1.19.1

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

The bug was reopened above because it was my understanding the feature never landed. It was stuck in upstream disputes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/227

But it sounds like someone else took over and landed it: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/440