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[PeterPall <1079203@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  You have recorded something with ardour or rosegarden, want to hear it
  in the train or library and all you have is a bluetooth headset?
  
  Admittedly Bluetooth isn't about the main goals jack wants to archive: It is neither low-latency nor high quality. But many bluetooth devices supporting the a2dp protocol provide a quality that is more than sufficient for everyday's work, for some tasks latency doesn't really matter this much -
  but as long as jackd doesn't support bluetooth you might not even be able to start up your favourite application. Fixing this would be hard, though: bluetooth audio isn't supported by alsa, but only by pulseaudio.
  
- There was a workaround:
+ There exists a workaround, though:
  -	open terminal „pactl load-module module-jack-source“
  -	open pulse audio preferences from the panel
            - select input: jack source
            - select output: Bluetooth device
  open terminal „pactl load-module module-loopback”
  
  Attention ever use first „pactl load-module module-jack-source“ then
  plug on the bluetooth device. The other way around the module load
  fails.
  
- But the workaround involved command-line work every time it was used
- (e.G. after suspending the laptop or temporarily loosing connection) and
- one of the needed modules seems to have disappeared from the package
- repository.
+ Would making loading the pulseaudio jack source module automatically do
+ any harm?

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Title:
  bluetooth audio (a2dp) and pulse audio network support missing

Status in jackd2 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  You have recorded something with ardour or rosegarden, want to hear it
  in the train or library and all you have is a bluetooth headset?

  Admittedly Bluetooth isn't about the main goals jack wants to archive: It is neither low-latency nor high quality. But many bluetooth devices supporting the a2dp protocol provide a quality that is more than sufficient for everyday's work, for some tasks latency doesn't really matter this much -
  but as long as jackd doesn't support bluetooth you might not even be able to start up your favourite application. Fixing this would be hard, though: bluetooth audio isn't supported by alsa, but only by pulseaudio.

  There exists a workaround, though:
  -	open terminal „pactl load-module module-jack-source“
  -	open pulse audio preferences from the panel
            - select input: jack source
            - select output: Bluetooth device
  open terminal „pactl load-module module-loopback”

  Attention ever use first „pactl load-module module-jack-source“ then
  plug on the bluetooth device. The other way around the module load
  fails.

  Would making loading the pulseaudio jack source module automatically
  do any harm?

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