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Over the last years I have followed the development around low latency and high quality codecs on bluetooth headphones. To be short: They are popular and the most used codec seems to be aptX.

That brings me to my questions:

Theres also another question on this topic but it was authored in 2014

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  • the gihub link is not working. can you update it, please? did you able to find a solution? – Kostanos Nov 18 '20 at 02:33
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    Im sorry @Kostanos github user droidman decided to delete his repository. I also have no backup and it was not cached on archive.org. Compiling EHfive's pulseaudio-modules-bt or buying additional hardware seem to be the only choices right now. – marco Nov 18 '20 at 17:14

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The Good News

The latest PulseAudio includes support for aptX. This is version 15.0 released on 2021-07-27.

Support for LDAC and AptX bluetooth codecs, plus "SBC XQ" (SBC with higher-quality parameters)

PulseAudio now supports the LDAC and AptX codecs for A2DP. In order to use them (...)

The Bad News

Ubuntu 20.04 is running version 13.99.1.

$ pulseaudio --version
pulseaudio 13.99.1
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The original creator was no longer able to maintain the PPA he had for supporting this. Someone else took over managing a PPA using the original creator's sources.

https://launchpad.net/~berglh/+archive/ubuntu/pulseaudio-a2dp

If you run into any issues, here is the github issue that tracked this work - https://github.com/EHfive/pulseaudio-modules-bt/issues/85#issuecomment-618870211.

Hope this helps!

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  • so from that first link i see to run sudo add-apt-repository ppa:berglh/pulseaudio-a2dp; sudo apt-get update but it's not clear what I need to actually do after that... apt-get something, presumably, but what? Is it the same set of steps in the answer here? – Michael Dec 09 '20 at 19:23
  • @Michael yes, that appears to work – Michael Dec 09 '20 at 19:28
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Ubuntu 21.10 will include pulseaudio 15

pulseaudio 1:15.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2 pulseaudio-module-bluetooth 1:15.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2 pulseaudio-utils 1:15.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2

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