Thanks. All steps now completed successfully, however I have the following issues:rcrsn51 wrote:It'sapt-get gmplayerBut get peasymp3 instead. Its .asouncdrc file already has the lines for bluetooth setup. Mplayer is an automatic dependency of peasymp3.apt-get install gmplayer
Your post above shows a successful BT connection to the speaker. That's the hard part. Now you just need to insert its MAC address into the .asouncdrc file. Use a copy/paste.
Then you can run the built-in player.
Mplayer and peasymp3 only play to the inbuilt soundcard (i did not install gmplayer, just the peasy package). I tried to hash out the "default" lines which specified the inbuilt soundcard in .asoundrc but failed to hit the sweet spot. Couldnt get peasy to stream to the bt headphones.
By contrast the "Play" function in the bt4stretch gui did start playing to my BT headphones but the playback was intermittently extremely distorted - hard to describe but very choppy and almost as if two versions were playing at once at faster than normal speed. Between bursts of this strange behaviour the audio played correctly.
I will shelve this for the moment and come back to it when I have learned a bit more. I am about to post a thread with a howto for the Slacko 5.6 procedure as i have found a way to get that going really easily (not Bluez-Alsa, just an older bluez pet that seems working on Slacko 5.6)