In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sat, 9 Mar 2019 19:15:21 -0400, pjp
wrote:

In article , NONONOmisc07
says...

Is there a program which will take audio bluetooth transmissions and
play them through a PC's speakers? Like from a cell phone?

This is about win7 and win10, so posted both places.

My android phone has a couple radio apps that are better** than any PC
programs

I've paired my phone with my win10 desktop and I've been trying to pair
my phone with my win7 laptop, and I want to take the sound that comes
out of the phone apps and play them through the better, louder speakers
of the PC. (Better and louder than the phone) Just like I do with the
car.

But "everyone" does this with a car and for the most part, people don't
do this with a phone and a PC, laptop or desktop.

Is there a PC program that will accept bluetooth transmission and play
them. Or a program that willl accept bluetooth transmissions and make
them appear to be coming from a CD drive.

For example, VLC has a lot of possible inputs, including Open Media:
File, Disk**, Network, Capture Device.

It has playing, streaming, converting, and queuing. Streaming would
work if I could make it point to the bluetooth (or a usb cable??, but
USB cables don't play audio from phones do they, only files as files.)

**Including Blu-Ray, which for a second I thought was Bluetooth.
**Only marginally better than RadioMaximus but still better in a couple
little ways, and as I'm learnign to how to play exactly what I want in
the car, I'd like to be able to play things the same way at home.

You could take your ausio out headphone connection on the phone and run
it into the line in connection on the pc. Then just simply listen to
line in on pc. That's assuming phone has a headphone jack in it.

Wow. That's so obvious, now that you said it. The cable is in the car
so I can't check it now.

I don't know that I have line-in. I have microphone-in. That will
probably be good enough?

Yes, I do have a headphone jack. Like on all good phones. In fact, in
the car before I tried bluetooth I was using the cable to the AUX input
of the car radio and it worked for 2 or 3 days (rental car while
traveling) and then it stopped. Now I hear a low sort-of rumbling
noise, even when I turn the car radio all the way up. My roommate is
going to lend me another cable, atlhough a simple MP3 player continued
to work fine with the AUX port. Who knows, maybe it's the cable
anyhow.

(I had trouble pairing the phone with the car (even though I'd paired
it with my PC at home and two in the ear speakers.) The word Mazda was
supposed to show up on the list but didnt'. I finally got it. )