A2DP and AVRCP

And not in 10.4.7 either 😟

MacMini (Intel) Mac OS X (10.4.7)

hi, i have a motorola DC800 stereo bluetooth hifi adapter, it needs a2dp but i heard you can also play music thru itunes at a diminished quality for the mean time, any idea how i go about doing this?

also, if you were to get an adapter that supports a2dp will the mac then support it, or is it the actual software in the mac?

apple not supporting a2dp is a real pain, is a2dp supported by an apple competitor at all?

I bet (hope) we'll see this in Leopard. I think they've stopped adding features to Tiger.

-gam

Any word if it is supported in 10.4.8?

Not sure about the stack in 10.4.8, but I believe Gam is right, it will likely be released in 10.5.

PB Ti 1GHz - The last of it's kind Mac OS X (10.4.7) et al

Its not in 10.4.8 but its definitely in leopard.

Yeah, it's still not working on 10.4.8.

You know for sure it's in leopard? If so, I'm definitely getting it. Ok, not just for this... the virtual desktop thing is awesome and it looks like it works way better than linux desktops. When is it being released again? I can't wait.

cheers,

/gam/

OS X 10.4.8 does not support A2DP, which is unfortunate, because I'd like to use my brand new bluetooth headphones with my Mac. Other message boards around the web on this topic are saying that the developer preview of Leopard is supporting the A2DP. I suppose that puts an end to the argument that we all don't have sufficient hardware.

Michæl

Apple Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8) Apple Bluetooth Keyboard & Mighty Mouse, Sony Ericsson W600i, Logitech Bluetooth Headphones for iPod

Both profiles are supported by Windows 2000, by the way. I've recently bought Jabra 620 (already mentioned above), and borrowed a BT dongle 'Mobidick' (chinese).

After I've installed software from the CD which comes with the device, I can hear music on the headset in really high quality! Sometimes it's tricky to make it work, though, but it's Windows 2000, so I don't expect it to be perfect.

I am disappointed to read all these posts about lack of support of the profiles on Mac 10.3 and 10.4 which I use. And, if they are really supported on Leopard, I don't think it takes too much effort from the Apple developers to migrate this support to 10.4 at least. Why don't they do it? So much time has passed since the profiles have been introduced, now they're supported by many devices, but not Apple with its 'next generation' OS. Shame on them!

The problem isn't that OS X can't work with A2DP or AVCRP, it's that the Apple hardware doesn't support it natively. You can get it to work by using said USB BT dongle, but why do I need an extra piece of hardware when I have a BT device already buildt-in to my laptop? That's what we're all kinda complaining about with this thread, really. :-P

Anyways, yeah, I'm using a stupid doongle, too.. annoying, but as a purist it makes me sad that I need it.

cheers,

/gam/

The problem isn't that OS X can't work with A2DP or
AVCRP, it's that the Apple hardware doesn't support
it natively. You can get it to work by using said
USB BT dongle, but why do I need an extra piece of
hardware when I have a BT device already buildt-in
to my laptop? That's what we're all kinda
complaining about with this thread, really. :-P

Anyways, yeah, I'm using a stupid doongle, too..
annoying, but as a purist it makes me sad that I need
it.

cheers,

/gam/

This is not correct. I have loaded Leopard 10.5 onto my Powerbook G4, A2DP and AVCRP work correctly with no additional hardware.

Let me rephrase my previous statement: The problem isn't that OS X can't work with A2DP or AVCRP, it's that the Apple hardware doesn't support it natively *when running OS X 10.4*. BTW, how did you get leopard already? I'm jealous now. 🙂

/gam/

I've also tried it with Leopard loaded on my iBook G4 and I can confirm it works. What I want to know is, can the A2DP and AVCRP be added to Tiger by transfering the relevant files from Leopard ?

iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

You put the cart in front of the horse. It's not hardware that supports OS; quite the way around. OS supports some hardware, or DOES NOT support, or supports not entirely, as in the case with the profiles we're discussing.

For quite a while now you could use many BT adapters with Macs, and they were supported by the OS enough to enable you to sync your mobile or hook up a printer. The native Apple BT hardware and DLink DBT-120 were better only because OS supported their hardware in such a way that you could use a headset, too. This is the example of OS supporting certain hardware fully.

But I don't really believe that it's difficult to implement the functionality on Tiger, or even Panther. There is support for several different profiles already; why not add a couple more?

It reminds me of the situation with DirectX 5 on Windows NT 4.0 (-: It was a long time ago, when there was no Win2000, and those who stuck with WinNT 4 had to cope with DirectX 3, wich was really outdated. And some individuals tried to copy some files related to DirectX 5 from the Win 2000 public beta and put them into Win NT 4. Needless to say, this resulted in sporadic crashes.