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Re:PipeWire: Bluetooth Support Status Update by kaladin-jasnah on Friday April 29, 2022 @05:25PM (#31210751)
PipeWire supports the most audio codecs of any desktop operating system, period. Windows and Mac don't have LDAC, Mac doesn't have aptX, etc.
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Re:PipeWire: Bluetooth Support Status Update by adamomada on Friday April 29, 2022 @06:44PM (#31211457)
I vaguely remember an old post from here showing someone hacking up Bluetooth to give SBC codec better quality, and it only being available on Linux (or maybe it was Linux+Android?)

I’ll try to dig it up and edit it in here, as I think it was a great hack

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Re:PipeWire: Bluetooth Support Status Update by aviraldg on Friday April 29, 2022 @08:18PM (#31212116)
Do you mean mSBC?
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Re:PipeWire: Bluetooth Support Status Update by adamomada on Friday April 29, 2022 @08:27PM (#31212166)
I found a couple links, since I remembered that Zenwalk distro was one of the first to include it. They call it SBC XQ

[0] http://soundexpert.org/articles/-/blogs/audio-quality-of-sbc...

Via

[1] http://www.zenwalk.org/2019/09/audio-quality-of-sbc-xq-bluet...

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Re:PipeWire: Bluetooth Support Status Update by smoldesu on Friday April 29, 2022 @05:38PM (#31210844)
Definitely, having just bought some XM4s I was kinda taken aback by having LDAC automatically pop up in my audio settings. Very neat to see support being that seamless!
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