Bluetooth Audio

[akashr04]

Hi everyone! I am using RPi 3 with Raspbian Stretch. I have been having issues playing audio over my bluetooth speaker. I am able to pair and connect to my bluetooth speaker, and I see it in the list of connected devices. But even after changing the default sink to this bluetooth speaker, I don't hear any sound.
The following bulleted points explain what's going on
1. Pairing is successful (bluetoothctl)
2. Connection is successful (bluetoothctl)
3. When trying to stream audio:
a. Using VLC: the tone is apparently played and I see the progress bar at the bottom of the VLC GUI reach completion, but I don't hear anything.
B. Using play command ( from sox : sudo apt-get install sox), the terminal appears to freeze, and no audio is streamed. The completion bar continues to remain at 0%. Again, obviously, I dont hear any sound.

I have tried a bunch of solutions: modifying audio.conf file, hiding the ALSA audio control bar, and quite a few others. I've been at this for over a week now. Please help me out..

[jamesh]

Been a lot of very recent updates to the BT system (today!)- please ensure you system is right up to date and test again.

[akashr04]

Hello Jamesh. After running an update on my pi, I am now facing a different issue. Like before, I can pair and connect to my bluetooth speaker but this time around, the speaker is not even listed as an audio sink. When I enter "pacmd list-sinks", I do not anymore see the device. using vlc, I couldn't find the speaker in the list of audio devices either.

[ShiftPlusOne]

Could you try running 'sudo systemctl stop bluealsa && sudo systemctl disable bluealsa" then rebooting?

[akashr04]

I tried those commands. I got a prompt saying "alsa service removed". After this, I tried connecting and pairing to my speaker. As before I was successful but I couldn't find it in the list of audio sinks. So, I still haven't been able to stream any audio. I tried VLC as well.

[ShiftPlusOne]

I tried those commands. I got a prompt saying "alsa service removed". After this, I tried connecting and pairing to my speaker. As before I was successful but I couldn't find it in the list of audio sinks. So, I still haven't been able to stream any audio. I tried VLC as well.

Neither of the commands I gave would give you that output.

[akashr04]

Okay so I re-ran the commands and performed a cold boot-up. Now I can successfully pair, connect and stream audio.

Thanks a lot for your help!

[wojciechk2]

akashr04 what did you mean by "I re-ran the commands and performed a cold boot-up". What did the commands were? I have the same problem. Share it please.

[akashr04]

Could you try running 'sudo systemctl stop bluealsa && sudo systemctl disable bluealsa" then rebooting?

Those are the commands I ran to be able to connect and play audio. Make sure to reboot after entering those commands.

If you need more help, just let me know in this thread.
Good luck.