Bluetooth speakers in Ubuntu 14.04

I have successfully paired Microboom bluetooth speaker to Ubuntu Laptop, using Blueman 1.23. However, even when connection is ON, I do not see the Microboom speaker in Sound settings to direct audio output to that.

2 Answers

blueman and pulseaudio do not play well together in Ubuntu 14.04. If you want to use it, try the utopic's blueman package which has a fix.

I was successful installing MagicBox on Ubuntu 14.04 after I removed blueman and followed these steps:

• I turned on MagicBox and selected BlueTooth Setting
• clicked on MagicBox II (which had not been displayed prior to removing blueman
• selected Headset MagicBoxII and then sound settings
• choose the mode: (option)High Fidelity(AZDP).
• I tested sound and all worked well. Finally I reinstalled Blueman, restarted and allowed me to improve the quality of using my headset directly in my computer.