AptX Bluetooth Audio Support on Libreeelc/Bluez

mad1max · July 25, 2017 at 10:41 PM

Has anyone had luck with AptX? I think Bluez doesn't support it, but I found a fork with AptX Support.

Anyone tried it? How can I compile and use it?

Link: GitHub - skogsmaskin/bluez-aptx-arm: Fork of Bluez to experiment with aptx support for Raspberry Pi

**lrusak** · July 26, 2017 at 1:11 AM Official Post

I've never heard of it before until now. It seems like you need a device that supports it

You could try using that fork in the bluez package when you compile LibreELEC but it's forked off an older version of bluez which may not be compatible.

mad1max · July 26, 2017 at 3:01 PM

Since V. 5.20 [1] Aptx is actually supported. But the Codec itself is not in the device tree. I found "libbt-aptx-4.0.3.so" online. But am not sure where to put it. Also in the Source Code [2] it calls "libbt-aptx.so". So I maybe also have to rename it. "/lib" is also read only. Any Ideas?

[1] BlueZ » Blog Archive » Release of BlueZ 5.20

[2] bluez.git - Bluetooth protocol stack for Linux

**lrusak** · July 27, 2017 at 12:36 AM Official Post

looks to me like that is android only.

**CvH** · July 27, 2017 at 5:03 PM Official Post

Quote from lrusak

looks to me like that is android only

afaik aptx is the way to go for high quality bluetooth audio and is "industry standard" (rather new) and every higher quality device supports it (beside apple, but well same story every year)