Sound stuttering via A2DP/Bluetooth

[honglong]

Hi, I am using the tornado a2dp fix and got A2DP working with a Sony bluetooth headphone set and the sound is great but it stutters. I tried WMA and even the HTC music player and its still the same (although a little better with WMA).

Is anyone else having these issues?

I may try updating the firmware (if avalible) or removing the A2DP thing and trying this instead:

http://sheehantu.wordpress.com/2007/05/25/enabling-a2dp-on-windows-mobile-5-phones/

has anyone tried this? does it work?

Does anyone having skipping music via A2DP? ANy fixes?

Thanks. all help appreciated! :)

[fujin]

I get the occasionall drop-out of music over a2dp. Every 30 seconds or so?

Not sure how to fix it - Works perfectly from my laptop. I don't think it's a signal strenght issue either as if I hold my jasjam next to my head it still does it.

[Press-E-Dent]

Hi, I am using the tornado a2dp fix and got A2DP working with a Sony bluetooth headphone set and the sound is great but it stutters. I tried WMA and even the HTC music player and its still the same (although a little better with WMA).

Is anyone else having these issues?

I may try updating the firmware (if avalible) or removing the A2DP thing and trying this instead:

http://sheehantu.wordpress.com/2007/05/25/enabling-a2dp-on-windows-mobile-5-phones/

has anyone tried this? does it work?

Does anyone having skipping music via A2DP? ANy fixes?

Thanks. all help appreciated! :)

Hi Just tried that prog and so far is NOT working......



Edit: It DOES work.

Bit fiddly to work it out but hey presto............. and stereo.

Listening to 'Pulse' ATM and not dropping out. Whahayyy!

[honglong]

i tried ripping a CD to WMA using media player at 128kbps and it works fine via A2DP with no skipping, so i think it just struggles with high bitrate songs and VBR MP3.

Update:

I tried an MP3 at 128kpbs and it skips, but when using a 128kbps WMA file it works perfect. So if you plan on using bluetooth headphones, get wmp 11 to convert everything to 128kbps WMA and you'll have not one problem.

[honglong]

Ok i have been playing with this and found a solution.

Use TCMCP. This plays AAC,WMA,MP3 and also video but if you embed the album art into the music file it will display this too. You can play the music at any bitrate and it doesn't skip with a2dp and bluetooth headphones.

And when you run this you have about 20MB avalible ram free.

To sort out your music and embed album art try music monkey.

Have fun!

[gunnar-eee]

I have the Pulsar 590A headset. Regarding stuttering audio; One thing to keep in mind; if you have paired it with your mobile phone, and later start a different pairing operation with bluetooth on your laptop, then the old connection with your phone may still connect automatically as a "mono headset" without you being aware of it. If you then connect the headset (manually) on your laptop to listen to stereo music (A2DP) the connection appears to succeed but you might get stuttering audio because you are also connected to your phone ! These seem to be two independent services that fight for bandwidth. I found that out when I happened to press the Dial button on the headset an to my surprise my phone (located in the hallway) called up my girlfriend ! :) And old pairing job I had done half a year ago and forgot about...Once I removed the phone pairing altogether (=phone link disconnected) the laptop music A2DP playback worked fine again. Can be a good thing to check in case you get stuttering audio.