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Fox Maid

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Bluetooth headphones only playing in mono audio.

I have tried multiple fixes and none of them have worked

dimich

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Re: Bluetooth headphones only playing in mono audio.

Is the device in headset mode or A2DP?

$ pactl list cards | grep "^Card #\|Name:\|Active Profile:"

Fox Maid

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Re: Bluetooth headphones only playing in mono audio.

a2dp

BIGBEASTISHANK

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Re: Bluetooth headphones only playing in mono audio.

I have tried multiple fixes and none of them have worked

Just saying that you have tried multiple fix dosent help, please state what have you tried.

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Fox Maid

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Registered: 2026-05-19

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Re: Bluetooth headphones only playing in mono audio.

https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comm … g_on_arch/
https://www.linuxnest.com/fix-bluetooth … etoothctl/
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comm … _no_audio/
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=306335
https://webcodr.io/2024/10/fixing-no-a2 … -on-linux/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Blueto … PulseAudio
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comm … lity_mono/