Comment 18 for bug 1589008

Same deal here on 4.8.0-34-generic with 16.04. Just got a Bluetooth headset hoping they were less terrible than they were years ago. I was excited that it worked well, sounded great, etc., but here we are with the operating system being the one with issues.

I tried the workarounds above. Once the issue comes up I can switch to the headset mode without issue, however switching back to high fidelity playback fails. It doesn't error out, but it will automatically switch to my laptop speakers despite the fact I specifically chose high fidelity mode on the bluetooth headset.

In my experience, it's not difficult to instigate this issue. I've had it happen a half dozen times in the 30-40 minutes that I've been working with these headphones.