A2DP audio profile

If you do a search, you notice A2DP is not supported by Mac OS X, yet.

I found a simillar model by Jabra that I'd like to purchase and am disconcerted that Apple has not yet adopted the appropriate Bluetooth protocol.

http://www.jabra.com/JabraCMS/NA/EN/MainMenu/Products/StereoHeadsets/JabraBT620S /

One can only hope it will arrive soon.

The Palm OS has (like the Mac) had Bluetooth support for sometime (although only BT 1.2...nto the better 2.0 +EDR)....and like Apple for reasons best known to themselves Palm hadn't included AD2P and AVRCP profiles.

So late in 2004 one of the Palm forums (after making the same discovery that adding bluetooth profiles isn't a hardware thing) launched a challenge to the software community to produce an add on software for the Palm OS to add the missing bluetooth profiles

See http://discuss.treocentral.com/showt...3&page=1&pp=20 for their journey.

Hey presto and about 11 months later this product was on the market http://www.softick.com/bluetooth-audio/ and it works...so now all us Palm users have A2DP and AVRCP profiles on Palms and they work great with no added hardware (other than the headphones)

So how about it...someone willing to make this work on a Mac...must be easier...afterall the Linux / Unix drivers exist and the software must be open source...how hard can it be to make an OS X add on?

Is there a way to contact Apple to let them know we want a2dp? They could easily include it in the next Bluetooth software or firmware update. There needs to be a petition or other such mass-contact. Any ideas or has something like this been done in the past? On Apple's Bluetooth Technology page, they advertise that they were the driving force behind the 802.11 standard, and now bluetooth. If they are so cutting edge with everything else and claim to be the technology leader, it is dumbfounding to me why they would not have included a2dp support in the last update, let alone not have released it by now.

I'd like to join in on a request to apple to provide AD2P support on OS X.

The other day I spotted a sale at Best Buy in Toronto online only for a set of Logitech Bluetooth earphones for the iPod. It comes with a bluetooth adapter to plug into an earphone mini plug and they work very well. real deal for $30 cnd. However I have tried to connect directly to my new iMac bluetooth and ran into trouble.

That lead me here to your discussion. The iMac will discover the earphones just fine and with a passkey I got from a Logitech discussion form [0000] I am able to pair the imac to the earphones. However when I go to configure them the mac says that there are no usable services offered by the device. So it doesn't do the connect and therefore I can't send the iMac audio to the bluetooth earphones. I have seen other forms on the web talking about the same problems.

So Apple {my favorite computer company since the 1986 Mac Plus which is still around the house somewhere along with 3 (new, old and older) iMacs and a Power PC 6500} could you please upgrade your bluetooth implementation with AD2P (Please pretty Please)

If I do discover a cure without apple I will post it here.




iMac 20" intel Mac OS X (10.4.7) 1.5gb, vram 256

I have to "me too" on this one. I just bought a Jenson wbt 212 stereo headset.

It seemlessly connected to my Pocket PC PDA and I have music perfectly from it. My Motorola Cellphone can interupt it to take phone calls and then pass the headset back to my pda after my call is done.

but, the best connection I have been able to get with my Powerbook G4 is a limited mono connection that the mac disconnects frequently. The quality is worse that a phone.

So, once again, I have bought "universal" hardware that Apple seems to be the last to support. This company was once very well known as being on the leading edge of multimedia and user friendly interface. But, I find myself with a headset that will have to use a dongle attached to the line out port on my PBook.

Another forum suggested that Apple doesn't want to hurt iPod sales by making their notebooks able to offer the same features to anyone with a bluetooth headset. I don't believe this for a second. As this lack of A2DP in the bluetooth stack is just another shot in the foot for Apple. kWhat I don't understand is why they never make public explainations to their fans as to why and when. Not just with this issue but all of the ones I have encountered over the last 8 years I have been a Mac user.

A2DP. Doesn't anyone know of a Hack to add it to the bluetooth stack?

Hi,

I own the Plantronics Pulsar 590A headphone.

I've overcome the lack of A2DP support by the Mac OS, by attaching the dongle that come with the headphone to the 3.5mm jack located on my 12" PB.

It has worked great so far, although I must say that it'd be nice if the Mac OS were to support A2DP and we needn't have attach anything else on the computer.

Cheers,

Kenny

Ditto I have some Bluetake stereo BT450Rx headphones in gleaming white like my iMac but though paired the sound quality is very poor without A2DP support.

Come on Apple!

For what it's worth, here's another "me too" request for A2DP support in Apple's Bluetooth stack. I've got Logitech's Bluetooth Headphones for iPod, and I love them, but all these A2DP devices requiring dongles kind of defeats the purpose of having Bluetooth come standard on all new Macs.

MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Usefull info:

http://www.robertwebbe.nl/A2DP.html

I too, am very surprised that Apple is behind the curve on this. I have a Jabra BT620s headset and am reduced to mono AM sounding audio. When will Apple issue an update and support the A2DP standard?

Let's hear from someone at Apple about what the timetable is.

Hi Kenny,

When listening to music using this dongle can you then still use the microphone? In other words, can you exploit the A2DP sound support while say skyping?

Best regards,

Jesper

Hello, I just bought a BT420Rx-C from Bluetake and I can't seem to connect it to my apple Mac Mini. The computer finds it and I pair the two but when I go to System Preff, Sound and try to change the device to the headset, it tells me the following error:

Bluetooth audio failed
There was an error connecting to your headset. Make sure it is on and within range.


I checked in the Bluetooth Panel and compared it to the manual. I found that the headset is not connected: CONNECTED: NO. Everything else is in place.


Here is my system specifications with Bluetooth:

Apple Bluetooth Software Version: 1.7.5f10


This is the information I get when I vew the device:

iPHONOPLUS:
Name: iPHONOPLUS
Address: 00-08-f4-30-60-03
Type: Headset
Services: Headset, Handsfree, Audio Sink
Paired: Yes
Favorite: Yes
Connected: No

Hello, I just bought a BT420Rx-C from Bluetake and I can't seem to connect it to my apple Mac Mini. The computer finds it and I pair the two but when I go to System Preff, Sound and try to change the device to the headset, it tells me the following error:

Bluetooth audio failed
There was an error connecting to your headset. Make sure it is on and within range.


I checked in the Bluetooth Panel and compared it to the manual. I found that the headset is not connected: CONNECTED: NO. Everything else is in place.


Here is my system specifications with Bluetooth:

Apple Bluetooth Software Version: 1.7.5f10


This is the information I get when I vew the device:

iPHONOPLUS:
Name: iPHONOPLUS
Address: 00-08-f4-30-60-03
Type: Headset
Services: Headset, Handsfree, Audio Sink
Paired: Yes
Favorite: Yes
Connected: No

I get this problem periodically. I suggest you delete the device and start again it seems to work for me.