Play music from phone to computer speakers via bluetooth
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Play music from phone to computer speakers via bluetooth
Hello, it's simple. I use kubuntu and want to connect my droid incredible 2 via bluetooth (done) but I want to play music on my droid and hear it on my computer's speakers. I have my computer setup as a mythtv media server and it'd be great to play from my phone and hear it on my sound system.
I have sending/receiving files down via bluetooth, though super slow and would probably never use it (40k/sec).
So, on the computer, when I run lsusb, I see the bluetooth controller as:
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
What do I need to do to push sound over bluetooth?
Ok I will check out dlna, any good apps you know of for android that send the media? Most seem to be able to browse another dlna server, or act as a dlna server.
If my phone is the dlna server, seems to me that i'd need to go to my computer to play the media stored on my phone/dlna server.
Any idea which setup I need?
This would be better than bluetooth as the range would be much greater.
my galaxy s2 came with allshare pre-installed. i am able to play movies on my fone hosted on my pc; as well as play videos which are saved on my fone on my tv (thru my xbmc pc).
most newer tv's have this functionality built-in (tv's are basically pc's now).
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