MP3 via BlueTooth

[Arkobad]

I need to listen to MP3s throught the bluetooth headset.
I don't need a good sound quality - it's just for speech.
I just want to play that MP3 continuously (again and again) so I'd be able to put on paper as much as possible.

So is there a way to play a MP3 (or any other sound format) using the BT headset?

[Rudegar]

i think it require a bluetooth profile which the xda2 dont currently support

[captin]

I use a SouthWing BT headset, bought on Ebay.co.uk for around £35.
It supports both the BT handsfree and headset profile, which the XDA2 supports too.

I can listen to MP3's or use it to take or make calls. You should be able to use any BT headset that supports the headset profile, most only support the handsfree mode.

[Pastor]

I have a Plantronics M3000 headset when I bonded it with my XDA II I selected the option for the headset profile from BT Tools. When I switch on the headset mode from the Today Screen I get a bleep on the headset but no audio is transferred to the headset it still comes out of the speaker. Do I need to tweak any other settings?

Im guessing that the Plantronics is not fully compatable with the headset profile.

Thanks for any help.


Paul

[Arkobad]

i think it require a bluetooth profile which the xda2 dont currently support

OK. Where can I get the required BT profile? Does the Widcomm driver have it?
It normally works on my PC - I can listen to all sounds form PC throught the BT dongle and BT headset. So it's just a question of driver. Where can I get it for my XDA2?

[chris_khho]

I use a SouthWing BT headset, bought on Ebay.co.uk for around £35.
It supports both the BT handsfree and headset profile, which the XDA2 supports too.

I can listen to MP3's or use it to take or make calls. You should be able to use any BT headset that supports the headset profile, most only support the handsfree mode.

Can u provide more details please? I couldn't find your mentioned headset from Ebay.co.uk

[captin]

This ie the companies web site - http://www.south-wing.com/

When I was setting up the pairing on my XDAII it recognised the earpiece as having the headset protocol and asked if i wanted to connect using the headset profile or the handsfree profile, I chose the headset one. It still works perfectly as a handsfree earpiece but also allows me to listen to anything played with the windows media player, which i use for MP3's.

It also works with a PC using a bluetooth dongle, I use it as a handsfree phone for my home phone.

[Rudegar]

how does it handle music ?

i mean does it play one channel of the stereo
or does it play joind mono ?

to me listening to music with 1 ear is pretty useless

[hops]

can you please also elaborate which rom version ? pocket BT tools installed or not? which BT stack?

the headset and handsfree profile are supported by MOST BT headsets
my jabra 250 suppprts both profiles, but I am never able to channel windows media output through the BT headset :(((

so any info would be very insghtful

[chris_khho]

This ie the companies web site - http://www.south-wing.com/

When I was setting up the pairing on my XDAII it recognised the earpiece as having the headset protocol and asked if i wanted to connect using the headset profile or the handsfree profile, I chose the headset one. It still works perfectly as a handsfree earpiece but also allows me to listen to anything played with the windows media player, which i use for MP3's.

It also works with a PC using a bluetooth dongle, I use it as a handsfree phone for my home phone.

Hi captin,

I had a look on the website. It didn't mention that the handsfree can support xda2. Also, there's no info at all that it can be used to listen mp3.
Can u show us more how you do it?

Thanks

[abeerm5took]

ok friend to use your headset with xda2 to lesson to mp3 you need widcomstck you can find in our fourm and kai blutooth headset batch you can buy from handango in 3 dollars and you can give to our fourms instool both and make pairing with your headset and thats work fine but only mono beacuse we need blutooth headset streo and in the market only mono thanks :P

[cruisin-thru]

I use a SouthWing BT headset, bought on Ebay.co.uk for around £35.
It supports both the BT handsfree and headset profile, which the XDA2 supports too.

I can listen to MP3's or use it to take or make calls. You should be able to use any BT headset that supports the headset profile, most only support the handsfree mode.



I think you must be the only person on the planet that has mp3 working through bluetooth without any patches/hacks/etc, can you please elaborate more because it doesnt work for anybody else.

[mikeaus]

I am using a Plantronics M1000 (M1500) with iMate 1.52.00WWE.

With Pocket Bluetooth Tools I can use it for Phone calls but not MP3.

Annoyances are -
1. I can't initiate dialling from teh Headset unless I dial from the phone and then hangup (even if BT permanently on).
2. If I leave BT permanently on the Headset battery goes flat very quickly in standby.
3. If a Call comes in on Call Waiting, the call transfers to the phone and I can't get it back to the Headset

Mike Sydney

[DaleReeck]

Any more news on this? The world waits... :)

[damcmillan]

Hi Guys,

Just thought I would let you know that New Answer Ltd have done bespoke integration work into Bluetooth headsets. For the application that you are talking about, it is possible to develop an app to run MP audio apps to any bluetooth headset. get intouch with info@newanswers.co.uk

Dan

[andy_smiling]

I've found that it doesn't work with XDAII.
So, I'm still waiting for the new patch.
Besides, does anyone know what Tobias, Pocket Tools developer, is doing?
I've sent emails to him serveral timee But there is no reply. His website also stop progressing as well.

[mlee2]

So, the XDA 2 does not have the profile that allows MP3's to be played through a headset. But does anyone know a profile that allows voice dialing from the headset? South-Wing has voice dialing from the headset but captin is the only person i know who has it working on the XDA 2. Anyone got any suggestions?

Michael

[DaleReeck]

So, the XDA 2 does not have the profile that allows MP3's to be played through a headset. But does anyone know a profile that allows voice dialing from the headset? South-Wing has voice dialing from the headset but captin is the only person i know who has it working on the XDA 2. Anyone got any suggestions?

Michael

Unfortunately, it's not as simple as just a profile. Since a third party voice dialing software has to be manually added to the XDA II (its not built in), the headset would have no way of knowing which application to "activate" when the headset button was pressed. The only way I see this happening is, if someone can hack the bluetooth stack to detect a headset button press, then route the command to a voice dial software installed on the XDA II. Ideally, the dll would have an interface that would allow you to select the application you want executed when the bluetooth headset button is pressed.

Rumor has it that the iPaq 6300 won't have voice activated dialing either - and it will have the best bluetooth software stack around, the Widcomm stack. If it won't support it, I wouldn't have much hope for the XDA II unless some hacker decides to give it a try. But it sounds like a lot of work.

[mlee2]

I sent a email to South Wing about compatibility with the XDA 2 and i got this reply

The XDA II does not support the Bluetooth hands-free profile which is used by the NeoVoice USB headset and gives access to the various hands-free mode features of the device.

However, it supports the headset profile also supported by the NeoVoice USB. This means you can make and receive calls perfectly and use functions of the headset like voice dialing.

Overall, without the hands-free mode capability, the features you would miss on are only the following ones: rejecting a call, transferring a call to the phone, last number redialing and disconnecting from the phone.

The headset is available online from expansys.com (type NeoVoice in the search box) where you may acquire the USB cable and car charger for little more.

There you have it from the horses mouth, hope this is some help

Michael

[DaleReeck]

However, it supports the headset profile also supported by the NeoVoice USB. This means you can make and receive calls perfectly and use functions of the headset like voice dialing.


Hmmm. Interesting. But I still don't see how voice dialing can be supported through the headset. Again, the XDA II has no built in voice dialing software, so there's nothing to standardize on. Therefore, your only option is a third party dialing app. So, if you were to install something like Microsoft's Voice Dial, the headset would have no way of knowing that it needs to call the Microsoft Voice Dial EXE when you press the headset button. Other bluetooth phones that do support voice dial can use headsets that, when you press the headset button, can call standard API's that initiate the voice dialing capability on the phone. The XDA II does not have this standard API set.

Anyway, I'm still more interested in pushing standard sound like MP3's and audio books through the BT headset. But the voice dialing stuff is interesting nonetheless.

[alexball]

Now I really would love to listen to MP3 to headset.

Has anybody ever done this?

Could you please give us a step by step howto.

Thanks alot
Alex

[andy_smiling]

http://www.pdamobiz.com

[ted_simple]

Now I've tried the widcomm stack, using the bluetoothgps.zip posted on page 14 of the "XDAII and bluetooth gps" topic. After the cab installation, I could add my sony hbh-600 headset using the widcomm drivers and activate the audio gateway. But as soon as I start to play audio from media player or pocket music player, the speaker from the headset becomes mute (there was a background noise before).

I also tried to activate the headset while music was already playing but that only caused the ppc speakers to become mute and there was nothing coming out of the headset.

The registry values which Kai's headset batch sets were already set for my system, you can also find them in the "XDAII ..." topic.

Using the free Tascal Registry Editor I imported the registry settings which were posted by Towa and JoseF - on page 3 or 4 I think of the same topic. What harm could it do, I thought, but it didn't change a thing.

Before installing the widcomm stack, I also tried to upgrade the microsoft bluetooth drivers.

First, I've extracted and installed the bluetooth cab file from the newer official T-Mobile Rom 16007 since I didn't want to install the whole thing and to hard reset. The files copied without error so I guess the update worked.

Then I installed the newest Pocket Bluetooth Tools 1.1.00.

Now I'm at least able to use the headset for phone calls.

For now, the MS Stack just doesn't support an audio gateway and nobody has made an effort to hack the widcomm stack either. Towa (the Pocket Bluetooth Tools author) did mention that he planned to implement such a feature in a future release. That was last december and I guess it was beyond his capabilities to upgrade the MS stack that much.

[alexball]

It does not work for me either. But it seems to be close.

Does anyone know if the Jabra BT 200 supports audio/voice gateway?

Thaks alot.
Alex

[alexball]

Ok now I figuered that the jabra bt 200 is able of playing musik. I got it connected with my PC but not through "audio gateway" but through the headset profile.

No when I connect it to my PDA the speaker turns off. When i trie to turn the volume up the PDA volume slider gets stuck at the second lowest level and I can not out it up by stick nor by the slider button.

Help. What can I do? thanks.
Alex

P.S. How can I remove the normal BT stack? I olway have two icons. the old one stays disabled.

[francochin]

I need to listen to MP3s throught the bluetooth headset.
I don't need a good sound quality - it's just for speech.
I just want to play that MP3 continuously (again and again) so I'd be able to put on paper as much as possible.

So is there a way to play a MP3 (or any other sound format) using the BT headset?

buy a freaking mp3 player for god sake...

[Arkobad]

I need to listen to MP3s throught the bluetooth headset.
I don't need a good sound quality - it's just for speech.
I just want to play that MP3 continuously (again and again) so I'd be able to put on paper as much as possible.

So is there a way to play a MP3 (or any other sound format) using the BT headset?

buy a freaking mp3 player for god sake...



Finally, there is an application, which does it!
http://www.pocketkai.de/en/ce142.htm
Unfortunatelly tested only on iPAQs....

[alexball]

buy a freaking mp3 player for god sake...

oh... Mr. Nice Guy. You help is apreciated. You know an MP§ player that does Bluetooth?


Finally, there is an application, which does it!
http://www.pocketkai.de/en/ce142.htm
Unfortunatelly tested only on iPAQs....

ted_simple tried the kai progy but without success
Alex

[ronald2oo2]

Anyone got this working yet on the XDA :?:

I like to get TomTom voice on the BT ear piece.

[mlee2]

By simply typing 'bluetooth mp3 player' into yahoo.com i was able to find a number of mp3 players with a 'handsfree' profile. I own a Creative Lab Zen Xtra player so cant see the point in using my XDA 2 as one aswell. Anyway the battery life on tghe XDA 2 would not last too long being used as a MP3 player. But maybe it is better to wait for a good bluetooth mp3 player to come onto the market

[Darkmoon]

ok i,ll just have my 2 pence worth in here I can listen to mp3,s wma wav files through my headset, I can also use voice dailing, and also chat in microsoft portrait with my bluetooth headset I have a M1000 and these are my headset here is the web address where they can be purchased from
http://www.sonorix.com/%7Etven/eng/product/product_bap.php

only problem they are expensive and u have to pay import tax on them but they are brill

[ronald2oo2]

Great, what a coincidence, I was just checking out the Sonorix site when I see your "2 pence".

Can you listen mp3 etc. from the XDA via bluetooth or is this only from the internal audio player?????
If from the XDA, do you have the standard BT stack (which ROM version do you use) or do you have e.g. a widcomm stack?

(PS I hoped the zip where the drivers, but no)

Thanx for sharing your experience.

Ronald

[JoseF]

Hi,
I have test this headset.
You cannot listen to music from the xda. Just from the headset mp3 player.
How ever the problem is not the headset, It´s the XDA bluetooth profile.
If you listen to music from the PC via bluetooth the sound quality is very good.
Regards
Josef