SUMMARY Bluetooth on 2 different audio devices cuts in and out randomly when idle using just youtube or spotify. It doesn't disconnect it just doesn't play audio then when it plays audio again it has leftover audio from before it cut out for a millisecond. I tried all the audio codecs available on both devices with the latest Archlinux kernel and an LTS kernel. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Turn on the system. 2. Connect with bluetooth. 3. Play audio. OBSERVED RESULT Connects and registers devices fine but the audio randomly cuts out. EXPECTED RESULT Connect and register fine and play audio without cutting in and out. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: XeroLinux KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.101.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 Kernel Version: 6.1.4-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i3-10100F CPU @ 3.60GHz Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650/PCIe/SSE2 Manufacturer: ASUS
Plasma is not involved with bluetooth audio in any way (except for initially connecting to the device). Therefore it's highly unlikely that the problem is related to Plasma and must be cause by something else
You can try reporting this to bluez or PulseAudio/PipeWire, but from a Plasma perspective there's nothing we can do for you
(In reply to Nicolas Fella from comment #2) > You can try reporting this to bluez or PulseAudio/PipeWire, but from a > Plasma perspective there's nothing we can do for you The reason I thought it was KDE related was because I have another install with my same disto but using gnome and the bluetooth doesn't have the issue but it also using pipewire and the same drivers for bluetooth.