IS A2DP Supported Yet?

[topshotta]

Hi,

 

I installed the latest Leopard build recently; however, I still don't seem to have A2DP support for my bluetooth audio receiver.

 

Can anyone tell me if this is functional in leopard yet? If not is there a way to get my bluetooth audio receiver working ????

 

Thanks!

[alloutmacstoday]

my bluetooth headphone work in leopard and regular bluetooth, but you can't turn it off, it's weird

[topshotta]

Maybe your bluetooth headphones also support the regular 'headset' profile. This is why they might work.... Most likely they are not utilizing the better quality A2DP profile.

 

My problem is that my bluetooth audio receiver only supports A2DP.

 

Frustrating !

[P2P2K]

After about a hour of fooling around I got Leopard to work with my Pioneer DEH-9800BT Head unit. Although there is a glitch, I can at least use bluetooth audio on it until Apple fixes the problem with the bluetooth software.

 

You set up the device and just select the "use as headphones" and get it in your bluetooth list. Now you'll see in the bluetooth drop down menu "Pioneer BT unit" but when you try and use headphones it errors and says "bluetooth audio failed." Well I can get mine working by opening "Bluetooth preferences." Select Pioneer BT Unit and go to "Show More Info" on the drop down menu. Now believe it or not, on that drop down menu, you can click "Update device services" and then quickly go and click "Use Headphones." When getting the devices to connect for a second to update services and then starting A2DP it works and stays connected.

 

Now headphones and other devices invoke the connection to Leapard to use A2DP, this makes most experiences flawless and easy. Unfortunately the Pioneer DEH-9800BT does not invoke the connection and that's why we have to invoke the connection with "Update device servies" and start headphones when they are connected to start A2DP.

 

I hope this helps those with the Pioneer DEH-9800BT. A2DP support was half the reason I bought it so early. So yes, I can confirm it works, not flawless for all devices yet, but once you hear the rumble of your subs in your car from leopard with no wires, you can only feel that the headache was worth it. Good luck everyone.

 

If you have Leopard and a Pioneer DEH-9800BT and need help your welcome to contact me @ preston2k@gmail.com

[openxs]

and if you need to toggle sound source (shortcut for "Use Headphones"), this is the applescript:

 

tell application "System Preferences" to reveal anchor "output" of pane id "com.apple.preference.sound"
tell application "System Events" to tell (table 1 of scroll area 1 of tab group 1 of window "Sound" of application process "System Preferences")
set S to selected of rows
if item 1 of S is false then
	select row 1
else
	select row 2
end if
end tell
tell application "System Preferences" to quit

 

..and make a trigger for it in QuickSilver, or use Spark.

 

Hope it helps some.