After two years of waiting on this, and seeing how disappointing the progress has been both in Ubuntu and PulseAudio, I am happy to say that I believe PipeWire is the future and I would hope that Ubuntu moves forward with switching to PipeWire (while keeping PulseAudio as an alternative).
I was able to follow these directions to switch to PipeWire and have found it to be acceptable with Bose NC700s and mSBC/HFP: From: https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/ofdalv/replaced_pulseaudio_with_pipewire_on_popos_2104_i/h4c5p6u/ # Add ppa for latest build sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipewire-debian/pipewire-upstream && sudo apt update # Install components sudo apt install gstreamer1.0-pipewire pipewire-media-session libspa-0.2-bluetooth libspa-0.2-jack pipewire pipewire-audio-client-libraries # If you get unmet dependencies, you can run: sudo apt --fix-broken install # Reload new services systemctl --user daemon-reload # Disable PulseAudio service systemctl --user --now disable pulseaudio.service pulseaudio.socket # If you update from previous version of PopOS systemctl --user mask pulseaudio # Enable Pipewire services systemctl --user --now enable pipewire pipewire-pulse # Enable Pipewire media session systemctl --user --now enable pipewire-media-session.service # I ran into an issue with a couple dependencies and needed to do the following before everything worked: sudo apt install libspa-0.2-bluetooth libfdk-aac2 systemctl --user restart pipewire.service pipewire-pulse.service Hope this helps. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1838151 Title: Poor quality audio with modern Bluetooth headsets in HSP/HFP. Missing wide band speech support (Bluetooth A2DP codecs). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pulseaudio/+bug/1838151/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
