Anyone here run a Bluetooth USB on their desktop rig ?
Neither the onboard nor external soundcards are used in the process so the soundcard is in the USB transmitter itself. The Sony wireless h/phones I got sound and work fine with my phone, but I’m wondering if a $17 USB will work as good, I only need a range of 10 or 15 metres the other side of a drywall. Thanks for any info.
Not on desktop. But the things generally work fine. Brand and model dependent I’m sure. Last bluetooth receiver/transmitter device I bought worked all over the house. It was some unbranded thing from ebay in that price range. Maybe $20.
Maybe installing microg would take care of this. I’m not too far in yet, and I might just flash Lineage OS for microg instead of going through the hopscotch of getting microg installed.
I use Signal as Signal and as a replacement for the standard SMS app and notifications are fine with that. One thing is that although I get normal text messages on the phone app, Signal on the computer only gets the Signal messages.
I have Lineage for microG but I don’t think I’ve enabled microG. Signal works with the Fairmail trick.
There’s a command you run in Termux that creates symlinks to the standard Android dirs to Videos etc. So you can yt-dlp into that directory and play with VLC, dunno about streaming.
I have what I hope is the world’s crappiest bluetooth dongle which only does a couple of meters. It dropped behind the PC (it’s in a USB hub) and couldn’t see the keyboard any more!
Thanks BW. I found one that claims good specs for $12.95 AU delivered so Ima take the plunge lol
I didn’t know that Signal can optionally handle SMS/MMS. Nice!
Looks like mpv handles audio streams fine. But using this would be easier after setting it up for running media player apps (such as vlc) from a script. https://github.com/amsitlab/termuxlauncher
I’m missing the need for symlinks.
It’s so that you can break out of the Termux silo. I suppose you can point VLC at Termux’s location though, never tried…
https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/FAQ#How_can_I_access_device_storage_with_Termux
I get 15 metres through a wall flawlessly from a late model Samsung phone so hopefully the dongle can match that.
Might be fortunate that there’s 4 USB ports at the front of the tower which basically faces the right direction for transmission, sending away from the electronic interference.
I’m a bit old school, I have four different PCs. No macs or iPads or iPhones.
Three run on Windows 10, one runs on Windows 7. The Windows 7 computer is a rack mounted DAW which was custom built back in 2008. It’s so obsolete by now that I’m going to replace it with a new state of the art DAW, probably custom built by PC Audiolabs or Vision DAW.
The main DAW computer right now is a laptop, custom built by PC Audiolabs. It’s probably the most powerful laptop money can buy (4 SSD drives, Core i9, 128 GB RAM, 4K 17" screen with 3 more external 4K screens, thunderbolt etc etc). Programs installed are Reaper, Cubase Pro, Pro Tools Ultimate, Sibelius Ultimate, Dorico Pro, plus terabytes of virtual instruments.
Sweet, it’s amazing what technology we can get these days compared to yesteryear. What you are using as RAM would have been a beefy sized hard drive not too long ago!
Amount of RAM in recent computers is getting nuts.
Yup, I got a HP i5 4Gig RAM which is quite adequate for the kind of music projects I do, running loads of fx, synths and samplers, virtually never even ‘need’ to freeze tracks, $190 AU, been running it a couple of years without a hiccup.
Five or ten years ago I wouldn’t have believed that kind of affordability for such a rig, basic as it is by present standards, it’s half a dozen times more powerful than the wheezing old boxes I ran back then.
Yeah, I know. Not too long ago you had the big setups with master and slave computers, connected via networks etc. That’s not really necessary anymore, with today’s computer technology.
It also really depends on what you do with the computers, film composing templates typically tend to be huge with hundreds of tracks and VSTs etc.
That is exactly what things are accelerating back to right now, essentially terminals and servers. Software-as-a-service is bigger than ever by far, and more and more software companies are going that way. Microsoft as one example, is now essentially locking machines to Windows 11 and creating more dependence on being connected to the internet and cloud services and privacy has been long gone for years already. Google and Apple already did all this with phones long ago and it is still accelerating. When Google drops Android for their new os, it won’t take long before the phone ROM communities can’t be involved anymore. What is keeping desktops alive is workstations and gamers. And workstations have become highly dependent upon subscription software and cloud applications already across industries. Gaming has been heading that way too. It’s an all around erosion of personal control over computing devices.
Relative to the above, from the World Economic Forum
That sounds like “we’re gonna screw people over, but we want them to think it was their idea.”
Any vpn recco’s?