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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, there are different bluetooth audio profiles, one for high quality audio intended for media consumption, and one for bi-directional audio intended for telephony (and some others, but these are the relevant ones here). The "gotcha" is that in general, any attempt to consume the mic feed from a bluetooth headset will switch it to the telephony mode, so if you have them paired to a PC and an application is listening to the mic for any purpose you get stuck with much lower quality 64kbps PCM audio.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Or worse: it's in telephone mode now, so obviously you only want the sound from the "call" because there's no other reasons the microphone could be on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Good to know, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Thank you for explaining that far better than I could!