Public bug reported:
I'm using Ubuntu 26.04 with Xfce and PulseAudio. After I start playback
in Audacious, Bluetooth audio from other applications stops working
whenever I stop or pause playback in Audacious. When Audacious playback
resumes, I can hear audio from other applications again. After Bluetooth
audio stops, the HomeSpot JY100-NR headphones act as if they're not
receiving audio, and seem to enter a low power mode after some timeout.
PulseAudio is acting as if audio is still being sent to them, with the
sink shown as RUNNING.
Either disabling the "MPRIS 2 Server" plugin of Audacious or "systemctl
--user stop mpris-proxy.service" fixes this problem. (This doesn't
restart sound, so it should be done while sound works, or the Bluetooth
device can be power cycled to make sound work again.) So, it seems when
Audacious stops or pauses playback, it sends some message to mpris-
proxy, which then does something with Bluetooth that stops audio.
I don't see any way to configure mpris-proxy to behave differently, so for now
my workaround is:
systemctl --user mask mpris-proxy.service
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 26.04
Package: bluez 5.85-4ubuntu0.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 7.0.0-38.38-generic 7.0.14
Uname: Linux 7.0.0-38-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.34.1-0ubuntu0.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Tue Oct 20 00:24:11 2026
InterestingModules: rfcomm bnep btusb bluetooth
MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. P35-DS3R
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-7.0.0-38-generic
root=UUID=52543c1b-1764-4766-a504-f4b94422fa6e ro sysrq_always_enabled
drm.edid_firmware=DVI-D-0:edid/LT26-A.DVI.EDID.bin
nvidia.NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=0
SourcePackage: bluez
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to resolute on 2026-07-05 (106 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 06/19/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F13
dmi.board.name: P35-DS3R
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF13:bd06/19/2009:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnP35-DS3R:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnP35-DS3R:rvr:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:sku:pfa:
dmi.product.name: P35-DS3R
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
hciconfig:
hci0: Type: Primary Bus: USB
BD Address: A0:9F:10:BA:CA:5B ACL MTU: 1021:6 SCO MTU: 255:12
UP RUNNING PSCAN
RX bytes:2240051 acl:364 sco:0 events:318812 errors:0
TX bytes:287072779 acl:318577 sco:0 commands:201 errors:0
** Affects: bluez (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug resolute
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When stopping music playback, mpris-proxy stops all Bluetooth audio
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