now how about doing this for the iPhone

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I'm just waiting for Apple, or a third party to add A2DP support to the iPhone. I think that's a little bit more useful, at least for me.

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Now that this is in here, does anyone know of a good set of A2DP headphones? I've found a set of motorola's and some logitech's for ~$65-75, but if there are better/cheaper, I'd love to know.

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Now only if they would update the Bluetooth firmware on their macs. As it stands it's absolute CRAP. The audio will cut out and there will lots of static if multiple bluetooth devices are used at the same time : mouse, keyboard, bt headphones etc..

The only way to solve this is for Apple to update the BT firmware.

Adi

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Nice. I think this bodes well for the iPhone, but I hope it doesn't take them long to implement it. I just don't see them caring enough to implement it for the Mac, so since they did, I think the whole impetus must have been the iPhone. Here's hoping.

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Confirmed, as if there was ever a question? Anyway this feature works quite well and for those interested in hardware apparently Phillips has a cheap headset people have found at wal-mart of all places for under 20 bucks. It is the VOX340 and I got one from woot.com at http://tinyurl.com/3badc8 It works great on the macbook for listening to tunes or in skype. I even use it to listen to podcasts via the iPhone's visual voicemail bug. I hope they don't fix this bug until after they get a2dp support on the iphone. Oh as an aside avrcp also works with this device in itunes, this means you can fast forward stop and skip tracks in itunes straight from the headset.

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@3:

Probably the best pair I've used are the Sony DR-BT50 Bluetooth headphones. They are a bit pricey, about $140 on Amazon (considering you can get better sounding cans at about half the price), but if you can spare the extra cash, they are *well* worth it and very comfortable.

http://www.amazon.com/Sony-DRBT50-Stereo-Bluetooth-Headset/dp/B000PCCLPU/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-7320971-6242848?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1194467242&sr=8-1

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I wish they'd open-source the Bluetooth "stack." (It isn't so much a stack as a hack, right now.) The dev community would have a real one put together faster than you can say "Fake Steve Jobs was right."

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I tested out the A2DP the day after installing Leopard with a pair of Plantronics BT headphones. It works pretty well but the compression does change the overall sound a little and I still found the implementation to be a little buggy.

http://fuzzz.gaulin.ca/2007/10/28/properly-enable-stereo-bluetooth-a2dp-in-leopard/

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I have a brand new plantronics 590a headset and while it sounds rather good for music it's basically unusable with skype. It just cuts every now and then and the sound quality as a headset is much much worse. At some point I just went back to my older USB headset.

I do have a bluetooth keyboard and mouse (from Apple). I hoped those wouldn't intefere but apparenty they do or something else does.

So far, it's just a decorative blue blinking thing in my living room. I don't know if a firmware or software update could fix that.

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I just got a A2DP headset, and didn't realize Tiger never had this feature. It works fine on Leopard on my MBP, but the audio gets choppy sometimes when I walk more than 10ft away, and then other times not, even when I'm in another room.

I actually considered buying an iPod Touch so I could have a wireless iPod, then realized it doesn't in fact have Bluetooth at all. That's lame. It's double-lame that the iPhone doesn't support A2DP. Isn't the point that it's a PHONE + IPOD?! Why would users not want that?

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I wish they would support using the computer as an A2DP and Handsfree/Headset target as well.

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"I've always found it surprising that Apple did not have support for the A2DP Bluetooth audio profile in Tiger."

You're kidding me? They want people to buy airport express and use airtunes. They did include A2DP in Leopard now because they were out of excuses not to do so, but they made sure quality was bad enough not to hurt airport sales. Nothing new under the sun.

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Haven't tested it but there is adapter compatible with the iphone for ad2p
http://www.pdaaccessories.net/productDetail.asp?accid=822&pda=iPhone

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Here is another adapter compatible with the iphone - a bit expensive $99,
http://www.8bananas.com/products/srs-200bd.html

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I'm really surprised how crappy the a2dp support is in leopard... I have a motorola S9 headset which works flawlessly with my at&t tilt and blackberry 8200... Sound is great, never skips, etc... So I 'know' the headphones work great...

However, on the MBP with Leopard they sound soooo bad I can't even listen to them... The skip, hiss and have a ton of static... I tried re-pairing with headphones only (as suggested) and it still sucks!

I hope apple fixes this issue before they try putting A2DP on the iphone...

Very disappointing, I upgraded to Leopard 'partly' because of A2DP support... That being said Leopard is great... I'm eagerly awaiting Apples bluetooth update...

-LeoD

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Is there any osx-scientist, who can cut out the a2dp bluetooth thing and make it work as add-on-software for tiger?

That would be grrreat! Best, Olé

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Were you able to use the headset as *both* a stereo output device *and* a sound input device? I could not with a Motorola S805: either the stereo sound is disabled, or the microphone is disabled. I don't know whether this limitation is caused by the Mac or the headset. This is a big issue for gaming where you need both at the same time (it works fine in mono).

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I would recommend the 'Trust' ultrasmall Bluetooth adapter for adding Bluetooth support.
http://bluetoothinsight.blogspot.com/2007/12/ultra-small-bluetooth-usb-adapter.html
The low profile is really nice.

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