I had a sudden compulsion to make my BH-501 work at last with Windows after one too many late-night “I can’t use speakers and can no longer abide cables for crappy earphones” moments. If I had money enough to blow $200 on a decent set of headphones expressly for the purpose of sitting at the PC late at night, sure, but I don’t at the minute. So my mobile’s Bluetooth headphones do a decent job in the time being.
The magical secret, it seems, is Bluesoleil’s free EDR Bluetooth manager software that allegedly has a 20MB data transfer limitation per session until it’s purchased, but I’ve just downloaded it and done over 50MB of audio data transfers in A2DP streams and it’s not complaining. Plus, Buy/Register under the Help menu are greyed out… so I don’t know quite how serious they are about selling this thing.
At any rate, it’s working great for me, though my crappy Bluetooth dongle slows EVERYTHING about this computer down… must try another one, it’s not A2DP’s fault because whenever I pair my mobile with it to sync the same thing happens — even when nothing’s paired, as soon as you plug the dongle in (USB) everything starts crawling.
All that said, BlueSoleil are great. Works well.
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try this bluetooth driver:
http://www.broadcom.com/products/bluetooth_update.php
Hi,
The reason the BlueSoleil driver works for your BT USB dongle is that it’s licensed for use under BS. That means you don’t need to buy the driver. For other users who have a BT dongle that isn’t licensed for use under BS, they will have the transfer limitation and they will have the option to buy the BT stack from BlueSoleil.
Judging by what I know about BlueSoleil, I’d venture to guess that your computer slows to a crawl due to the BlueSoleil driver. But, I can’t say anything definite, since I don’t know your exact situation.
I hope that clears things up for you!
That BS shit eats pieces of my sounds (typically right after computer is started). Upgrade solves problem, but you got to pay for it! Now Linux is pretty much annoying crap, but it does you A2DP and does it for free.