when i go to browse the phone, it just hangs while connecting and then times out.
ive tried deleting the pairing, restarting my phone & ibook, updating the firmware -- what else could be done? it doesnt seem to be the phone, as my headset works perfectly.
can anyone help me out?
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)
Failing that, is there a new appliance in the region that might be hitting the frequency Bluetooth uses?
― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:53 (twenty-one years ago)
hey y'all
i'm looking to get a new integrated amp for my turntable and CD player, but the main thing is that i want an amp that can accommodate bluetooth streaming from my macbook. (tempted to get this little thing: http://www.psaudio.com/products/sprout/#tab-features). i'm sick of either having to plug in my laptop (or iPod) to the receiver directly, or just listening through my laptop's teensy speakers.
do you folks know if you can reliably stream stuff from VLC (which can play more audio formats than iTunes, like e.g. FLAC) via bluetooth? i really have never done this stuff before so i'm a little in the dark. and how /far away/ can you stream audio to another bluetooth device? if my computer is upstairs (2nd floor) and the amp is downstairs, will they 'find" one another?
― wizzz! (amateurist), Saturday, 27 August 2016 03:34 (nine years ago)
You know Bluetooth audio is very lossy-compressed I presume? Wozniak just took Apple to task for having such crappy Bluetooth audio from the iPhone.Apple's Airplay, on the other hand, is lossless 44/16 (but no higher sample rates or bit depths). You can pick up a secondhand Airport Express for $20 and it will feed optical out or 3.5mm audio jack. The DAC on the most recent model Airport Express is ruler flat and jitter free. http://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/airport-express-audio-quality-2014.htmIt can stream any Mac / iPhone / iPad audio.
― MatthewK, Saturday, 27 August 2016 04:08 (nine years ago)
hey, thanks for the good advice!
i actually didn't know that about bluetooth audio! that's a shame.
i actually have an old Airport Express (probably 7 or 8 years old; i'm not sure if it has optical output but it certainly has a 3.5 audio jack)! i always had a very hard time getting it to work on my wifi network -- i would set it up, my laptop would recognize the device, i'd use it for a few days or weeks, then it would disappear and i'd have to set it up all over again. but presuming it's still in working order i could give it a try. (i also don't even have a wifi network right now -- long story involving incompetent ISP -- but i assume it will work w/o that.)
i think i only ever used the Airport Express w/ iTunes. can you stream from other software too, like VLC? i have most audio files in MP3 but a handful of FLAC and other files which iTunes won't mess with.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Saturday, 27 August 2016 04:29 (nine years ago)
Yeah I have had them drop out - I use 2 at home and they were flaky for a while, but if you disable the "extend network" function they become more reliable. I think they can also be attached via Ethernet if you are not running wifi. If yours has a 3.5 audio out it also has optical digital out through the same jack (needs a mini-TOSlink cable, about $5 on eBay).Some AppleTVs offer similar functions but it's 48/16 so there is a sample rate conversion for streamed audio, if that's a concern.With the Airplay stream you can hold the option key while clicking the volume menubar icon, you get the option to redirect all your computer's audio to the Airplay if the application itself doesn't offer the facility. Or you can Airplay from iTunes while regular computer sound comes out of the computer. Ripped all my CDs losslessly last year and haven't looked back, iTunes by remote control from phone and screen sharing works nicely.
― MatthewK, Saturday, 27 August 2016 04:42 (nine years ago)
in reading through the manual, it would seem that i can't use the airport express w/o a wifi internet connection. ii thought you could just stream stuff to it from a laptop w/o the intermediary of a wifi network, but apparently not.
(we are just using xfinity wifi right now through a friend's comcast account, because we can't get an ISP to give us our own internet connection! we just moved and this is one of the major aggravations. verizon allowed us to order internet service, then jerked us around for several weeks before finally revealing that they couldn't provide internet to us. and they are still calling us/billing us for service they never provided. grrrrr.)
― wizzz! (amateurist), Saturday, 27 August 2016 04:46 (nine years ago)
Well I think you can get it to set up its *own* wifi network. Then if you Mac joined that network it could stream. No Internet access obviously but I think it would fall back on wired when wifi didn't provide.https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4153687?tstart=0http://www.theinstructional.com/guides/configure-an-airport-express-as-an-ethernet-airplay-receiver
― MatthewK, Saturday, 27 August 2016 06:56 (nine years ago)