oh cool on linux you can *just* use AAC/LDAC/APTX/LC3 as long as the bluetooth reciever supports it
common linux w

most bluetooth devices support APTx/LDAC/AAC but due to liscensing isn't capable.
macOS used to have AptX support baked in but they removed it some time ago

@Jes for some reason I couldn’t get it to work with pipewire or pulseaudio (only sbc and higher bitrate versions of it are listed in pactl send-message /card/bluez_card.<address>/bluez list-codecs) with headphones that support aptX or AAC

@noisytoot what distro are you using

@Jes I tried on two different computers, one is guix system with pulseaudio, the other is alpine linux with pipewire

@Jes actually never mind, I thought I was using pipewire on alpine but I was actually still using pulseaudio. now I switched to pipewire and AAC works (so it's working with pipewire but not with pulseaudio)

@noisytoot oh that makes more sense. pulseaudio needs a patch to support anything above SBC https://github.com/EHfive/pulseaudio-modules-bt

@noisytoot

@Jes at some point I need to figure out how to switch to pipewire on guix (it seems to be a guix home service, and I've never used guix home (I started using guix before it existed))

@Jes you can maybe enable an option to do high bitrate SBC for those that don't, too

@izzy I bought the alternative a2dp driver for windows and now I have the magical jpeg slider

@Jes thought that was only in GIMP