I picked up a pair of Bluetooth headphones the other day, mostly because I was tired of becoming tangled up in a mess of wires.  Also, while at work, I routinely slide away from my main PC, which requires taking off headphones.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that the bluetooth-alsa project was recently updated, and no longer requires inclusion of the emu10k1 driver, which provided snd_hwdep_new.  I compiled the necessary daemons and libraries, but couldn't get Audacious to use the a2dpd ALSA device.  However, VLC worked nicely.

Only downside is lack of distribution support, and some crashing and random blips.  I have to keep a2dpd running at all times, and sometimes I'll hear a blip in the audio stream.  I couldn't get alsamixer to control the audio on the headphones, however VLC's volume control seems to do the trick.

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