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danyuri86

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Registered: 2025-03-30

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Audio stuttering/stopping randomly while using bluetooth headphones

I just installed Arch/KDE using archinstall and selected pipewire during that process. Then once in the system, I installed bluez, bluez-utils and did systemctl start bluetooth.

I can connect the headphones just fine to the PC, but while playing audio, for example from youtube, the audio keeps stuttering/stopping randomly every 10 to 20 seconds or so. I'm not really sure what to do. I've tried restarting bluetooth and the pc and the issue remains. Any help appreciated, ty

Last edited by danyuri86 (2025-03-30 12:00:30)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Audio stuttering/stopping randomly while using bluetooth headphones

Are you using wifi? Which wifi card/wifi driver? What are the connection properties of said connection? There are sometimes some settings you can adjust to coerce the coexistance to work better, but fundamentally wifi and BT share the same band and will logically conflict and create issues. The best way to avoid this is to switch your wifi to a 5Ghz connection if you're able since that will free the 2.4Ghz bandwidth and allow BT to operate there.