This issue affects me as well, I've spent half a workday attempting to
work around it and thought my experience might be useful to whomever
works on fixing the issue.

I'm using a Dell Precision 5510 with this audio card:

user@hostname ~ $ lspci | grep -i audio
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H HD Audio (rev 31)

This morning I logged in and noticed an available kernel upgrade, from
4.4.0-53 to 4.4.0-78 .

After upgrading, no audio player would play(with my bluetooth headset
connected) . The timer would remain at 0:00 ; this includes pithos,
youtube, and xplayer. If I changed the output device from my bluetooth
headset to the built-in speakers, audio and video would play without
issue.

If I changed the bluetooth headset's audio profile to "Headset Head Unit
HSP/HFP" audio and video would play (though at a quality that's not
quite acceptable for listening to music). When changing the audio
profile to "High Fidelity Playback A2DP Sink" any media player would
freeze at 0:00 again.

I attempted to diagnose the issue by checking dmesg after launching a
media player; nothing new appeared after running dmesg, then xplayer,
then dmesg again.

I attempted to run xplayer from a terminal to see if any debugging or
error information appeared, it did not.

The only way I have been able to correct the issue was by rebooting,
selecting "Linux mint with advanced options" from grub, selecting the
older kernel (4.4.0-53), and uninstalling the new kernel. After doing so
I can set the headset to the higher audio quality without media players
freezing. No other packages were installed/uninstalled.

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