Installation of pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-freeworld

[Herzbergh]

Hey, any idea how i can install pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-freeworld?
it contains AAC, aptX / aptX HD etc codecs for bluetooth hihi..

i guess the codecs can also be installed through : libldac, libavcodec-extra58 libfdk-aac1 bluez but i cant install those as well ..

best, herzbergh

[Stevo]

It's not necessary in Debian, instead it's pulseaudio-module-bluetooth.

Codecs are in the media player, not in a pulseaudio module.

Can you describe your problem with bluetooth and show us your Quick System Info from the menu?

[Herzbergh]

hey stevo, if you connect your bluetooth device you should be able to select a profile.. e.g. A2DP sink: AAC or A2DP sink: aptX

see how it works over here:

https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg- ... 0ee4911883
https://nbmzkyrjymksftlt.quora.com/Inst ... untu-20-04

but i can not select such profiles.. i can only select one A2DP profile.. but noch AAC or aptX

you can select the profiles in blueman-manager and pavucontrol...

thx

[Stevo]

MX is based on Debian, not Ubuntu, Fedora, or Arch.

libfdk-aac1 was replaced in Debian repos by the newer libfdk-aac2: https://packages.debian.org/search?suit ... ibfdk-aac2

[Herzbergh]

Hi Stevo, i've managed to install the other packages except libldac.. it was a problem on my own side and because of libfdk-aac2 instead of libfdk-aac1.

But the pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-freeworld is not the same like the pulseaudio-module-bluetooth for debian.

if you read here: https://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/sear ... -freeworld

pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-freeworld includes support for LDAC, aptX, aptX-HD and AAC codecs. And this is a difference between the pulseaudio-module-bluetooth for debian and the pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-freeworld.

And this is what i am looking for: support for LDAC, aptX, aptX-HD and AAC codecs.


best,

[Herzbergh]

Hi, you can select the profiles if you use pipewire but if you also want to stream audio to an dlna device than you will need pulseaudio-dlna...
so it would be important to bring the pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-freeworld to mx linux..

thx..

[timkb4cq]

pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-freeworld is built from this source.
https://github.com/EHfive/pulseaudio-modules-bt/
which posted this close to two years ago:

Deprecation Announcement #154
EHfive commented on Jan 18, 2021
Since I have already switched to PipeWire and I don't want to pay further efforts on this. I am going to deprecate this project. The repo will be archived on January 25.

So it's unmaintained & obsolete. Not the best project to package since pipewire has made it obsolete.
However if you wish to use it there are build instructions at the archived github page.

[Herzbergh]

ok, well i need pulseaudio because of pulseaudio-dlna...

maybe the codecs will be integrated into pulseaudio-module-bluetooth for debian in the near future too..

for fedora there is a package called pipewire-pulseaudio

https://fedora.pkgs.org/35/fedora-x86_6 ... 4.rpm.html

this will make it possible to use pulseaudio-dlna with pipewire but its also not available for mxlinux

thx

[Stevo]

I think from skimming the threads about a newer pipewire install in MX 21 from our test repo, currently 3.58, that there is a similar pipewire-pulseaudio type package for Debian.

Dolphin_oracle created a metapackage that pulls in pretty much everything that's needed, plus configures pipewire, so the changeover is rather painless.

[Herzbergh]

hi, it is included with pipewire-setup-mx but pulesaudio-dlna says that it cant find pulseaudio anyway:

12-16 15:54:32 pulseaudio_dlna.pulseaudio CRITICAL Failed to load module "module-dbus-protocol"!
12-16 15:54:32 pulseaudio_dlna.pulseaudio INFO Probing for $PULSE_DBUS_SERVER unsuccessful.
12-16 15:54:32 pulseaudio_dlna.pulseaudio INFO Probing for /run/pulse/dbus-socket unsuccessful.
12-16 15:54:32 pulseaudio_dlna.pulseaudio INFO Probing for $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR unsuccessful.
12-16 15:54:32 pulseaudio_dlna.pulseaudio INFO Probing for org.PulseAudio.ServerLookup1 unsuccessful.
12-16 15:54:32 pulseaudio_dlna.pulseaudio INFO Found the following pulseaudio server addresses:
12-16 15:54:32 pulseaudio_dlna.pulseaudio CRITICAL Could not connect to pulseaudio! Application terminates!
12-16 15:54:35 pulseaudio_dlna.discover INFO SSDPDiscover.search()