Windows 11 Tests Bluetooth Audio Sharing That Connects Two Headsets at Once (theverge.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/31/1850220/windows-11-tests-bluetooth-audio-sharing-that-connects-two-headsets-at-once
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/811795/microsoft-windows-11-bluetooth-le-shared-audio-headsets
> The feature is built using the Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) audio codec, and it's rolling out in preview to Windows 11 Insiders in the Dev and Beta channels. Shared audio comes in handy if you're watching a movie on a laptop with your friend or family member, or just want to show them new music that you can both stream inside your own wireless headsets. You can use shared audio by connecting Bluetooth LE-supported devices to your Windows 11 PC and then selecting the Shared audio (preview) button in your quick settings menu. Microsoft introduced an LE Audio feature on Windows 11 in August, enabling higher audio quality while using a wireless headset in a game or call.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/811795/microsoft-windows-11-bluetooth-le-shared-audio-headsets
They're just doing this to be jerks (Score:3)
Literally double the number of accidental porn over the bluetooth incidents.
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Back in my day, we had to accidentally unplug our headphones while watching porn vids in a public place.
Now stay off my lawn!
Even a single BT headset connection sucks (Score:2)
I won't use a pure BT headset for work, because the connection is too flaky, and the range is too short. If I walk into the next room, it starts to quickly degrade. Thankfully, most of the good wireless headsets also come with a dongle that uses a proprietary RF technology for communication. These wireless-but-not-BT headsets have a much higher connection quality, and can keep the connection live as far as 100 feet away, even through multiple walls.
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Bluetooth is nowadays meant to be capable of these high ranges but I have found even if you get a larger antenna bluetooth dongle with longer range features it doesn't in practice extend it much further. It does however work so if you do want a bit more range get the latest standard dongle with a noticeable antenna and it will boost the signal a bit and provide some extra meters of range.
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I think you may just have some shit hardware. I have no problem with Bluetooth headsets in my entire house (covering 3 stories). My connection does drop if I walk all the way to the shed though.
Benefit is headsets (Score:2)
The big benefit of this feature is for headsets that have a microphone and headphones. Whenever you used both together previously the quality of both would drop, but with two separate connections that should no longer happen. Its taken far too long for Microsoft to go about implementing this upgrade since its been available in Bluetooth for years but its good its finally here making bluetooth headsets work a lot better.
Late to the party again ? (Score:4, Informative)
Copying features already available in other operating systems .... tut tut.
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Now lets hope Apple copies Microsoft and puts LE Audio on iOS.
Re: Late to the party again ? (Score:1)
They havenâ(TM)t yet copied the feature of having an unusable desktop experience. The Linux distribution of your choice has that market cornered
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Why would you tut this? Not once, but twice? It's a good thing.
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I'm not understanding this party... Could someone explain? A usage scenario or two would probably suffice.
Maybe I can't capish because my usage scenario is too contradictory? My most promiscuous Bluetooth device is a Cheero TouchBone, and I am always using it to keep things quiet. For my situation things suddenly went pear-shaped when I starting using that feature with too many phones and computers at the same time. In the happier days of yore, I could just turn on another computer (or smartphone) and the T