On 11/03/2019 11:33, micky wrote:

In alt.windows7.general, on Sun, 10 Mar 2019 01:33:34 +0200, micky
wrote:

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

In article , NONONOmisc07
@bigfoot.com 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.

ISTR that when I finally managed to pair my phone with a W7 PC, there
was an option to do something like that.

Well, playing a little MP3 player this way, plugged into the microphone
jack, works fine.

Er, clarification, do you mean a separate hardware mp3 device, or an mp3
player program running on your cell phone? For the moment I presume the
former.

Using the headphone jack gives me the same sort of problem I had when
trying to use the AUX jack in the car (Even though that worked just fine
the first 2 or 3 days I had the car). With the PC, when watching the
mike inputs, the green bars increase in a regular pattern, every couple
seconds, and then go down to zero. And the sound coming out of the
speaker is just like those bars. No music, no talk, just thudding.

OTOH, plugging headphones into the headphone jack works just fine. So
is there a problem with the headphone jack or not?

The phone knows what is plugged into the jack, and for some reason it
doesn't like the AUX cable (or what is at the other end) even though
it's happy with the headphones.

I suspect that there are possibly two interrelated problems here ...

1) As you suggest, the phone tries to sense what is attached to the
headphone socket - remember that some selfie-sticks plug into the same
socket. Also it may try to control the audio output level, to protect
the ears of someone using earbuds or headphones.

2) The PC may be trying to set the recording level on the mic jack
automatically, or, even worse, it too might be auto-sensing what is
plugged into it and changing settings erroneously as a result.

The fact that both devices are trying to be too smart-arse and thereby
each undoing the work of the other may be what's causing your problem.

As the PC is probably easiest to control, I suggest that you start
there. Many PCs launch a sound-card related control app on bootup or
login, but usually even those that don't install a Control Panel app to
control the hardware settings on the sound-card. Look for such in your
CP, it may be an extra tab on the normal W7 Sound CP app rather than a
seperate app, and see if you can't disable auto-sensing and have the mic
input fixed as mic, or even better, line-in. Also look for evidence of
an automatic recording control, try launching the mixer if you can't see
it elsewhere, and see if you can disable it, and whether that helps.

This seems to mean I have go back to making bluetooth work. It worked
for that guy in the link, who couldn't get it to work in win10 but did
in win7.

See above, I've just paired the tablet to the Dell Inspiron again, and
one of the services offered is 'Play Music', and now I have a Bluetooth
playback control bar on my Inspiron's Taskbar. However, in my case, all
the music is on the PC anyway, I have none at all on the tablet, so
can't test it meaningfully.

Yesterday it reconnected easily. I guess the first time is the
hardest.

'The first cut is the deepest'