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Useful PulseAudio featuresUseful PulseAudio featuresPosted May 26, 2009 19:55 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)In reply to: Useful PulseAudio features by nye Parent article: The Sound of Fedora 11 (MadRhetoric)
Forester says that in 2008 2/3 of laptops shipped with Bluetooth capability built-in and it's still rising fast. 100% of Macs and smartphones have it. USB adapters are regularly less than $15.
There are lots of things wrong with bluetooth but availability is not one of them!
Personally, I just replaced my USB headphones with over-ear bluetooth headphones and, although their audio quality is lacking, I'd hate to go back. May I go the rest of my life without needing to untangle the cord from my office chair again, or forgetting that the headphones are around my neck as I walk away.
Now, why do all bluetooth headphones and headsets have that awful 1-button interface?? Press for 2 seconds to turn on, 3 seconds to turn off, 4 seconds to pair, 5 seconds to display battery, etc. It's idiotic! I hope this gets fixed soon.
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Useful PulseAudio features Posted May 26, 2009 22:29 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
haven't you heard, users are confused by having more than one control (toung planted firmly in cheek)
Useful PulseAudio features Posted May 27, 2009 10:48 UTC (Wed) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
>USB adapters are regularly less than $15.
In that case it seems pretty cheeky that adding Bluetooth to a Dell laptop costs an extra £30.
Useful PulseAudio features Posted May 27, 2009 17:40 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Yes indeed. I wonder if they make noise-cancelling Bluetooth headphones?
I'm quite attached to my current Sennheisers, but since they've already got a battery you'd think Bluetooth as well would be a natural for them. (For all I know they already make them and I just hadn't noticed.)
Useful PulseAudio features Posted May 27, 2009 18:48 UTC (Wed) by Los__D (guest, #15263) [Link]
No need for noise cancelling, just just proper noise-isolating in-ears, i.e. the Etymotic ety8.
Noise-isolates 35-40 dB, sounds a hell of a lot better too (I only listened to my own non-Bluetooth ER-4P, I don't know how bad A2DP kills the quality).
Only problem is that for some, they aren't very comfortable, so it would propably be a good idea to try them first.
Useful PulseAudio features Posted May 27, 2009 19:27 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
I'm specifically avoiding in-ears because I find them agonizingly painful.
It's over-ear or nothing for me.
Useful PulseAudio features Posted May 27, 2009 20:00 UTC (Wed) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]
I am specifically avoiding on-the-ear because some models just squash your ears, and if you happen to wear glasses it's even worse, and yet worse if the bail is not made of gum (the latter is done at the request of customers who potentially suffer lots of shock activity, such as kids in school sport).
Useful PulseAudio features Posted May 27, 2009 20:50 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Yeah, that can be a problem: I tried a good few headphones before I found
one that didn't feel like you were wearing a vise.
(Bail made of *gum*? Is this some US-specific peculiarity?)
Useful PulseAudio features Posted May 27, 2009 21:11 UTC (Wed) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]
Should have said polyethyleneorsomethingrubberlike, not gum.
Useful PulseAudio features Posted May 27, 2009 22:35 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Ah, right. For a moment there I thought you meant gum as in chewing gum.
Oddly disturbing.
Useful PulseAudio features Posted May 29, 2009 20:40 UTC (Fri) by asdlfiui788b (guest, #58839) [Link]
Well don't push them all the way in then silly.
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