Bluetooth speaker used the HSP/HFP profile by default rather than the higher-quality A2DP profile
Bug #1720684 reported by
Nate Graham
This bug affects 6 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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PulseAudio |
Fix Released
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Medium
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pulseaudio (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Daniel van Vugt |
Bug Description
Kubuntu 17.04
Bluetooth device: https:/
The above Bluetooth speaker paired and started streaming audio perfectly in Kubuntu 17.04. But the audio quality was poor, because the default audio profile was the low-quality HSP/HFP one. When I switched it to the A2DP profile, it sounded perfect again.
Can we make A2DP the default playback profile for Bluetooth audio devices?
tags: | added: a2dp |
Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
Changed in pulseaudio: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in pulseaudio: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
tags: | added: pulse11 |
Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Triaged |
Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
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Kubuntu 17.04 /smile. amazon. com/VicTsing- Wireless- Waterproof- Hands-Free- Speakerphone/ dp/B074DX13T1 (identifies itself as "C6" by default)
Pulseaudio 1:10.0-1ubuntu2
Bluetooth device: https:/
The above Bluetooth speaker paired and started streaming audio perfectly on my Kubuntu 17.04 system. But the audio quality was poor, because the default audio profile was the low-quality HSP/HFP one. When I used pavucontrol to switch it to the A2DP profile, it sounded perfect.
I don't know enough about Bluetooth to suggest a solution, but this is definitely an issue. My Mac used the correct profile with no configuration and sound was perfect with no configuration, but my Linux system didn't, and I had to start a reddit thread and read a wiki page to learn how to get the device to produce decent audio. This is a sub-optimal user experience for someone like my wife or my mother, who would would just assume that it doesn't work and blame the speaker or the OS.