Windows 10: Bluetooth earphones not connecting hands free audio, only stereo. Connected as only music...

My Bluetooth earphones show as "Connected music" even though it used to show as "Connected voice, music". I used to have the option to output audio through the hands free thing, but now only stereo is there, so I cant make calls. I think this may have happened after a recent update.i found the hands free device in some sound settings right click sound icon > sounds > playback:the hands free audio is enabled but disconnected. I tried connecting it, didn't work. Only the stereo is connected. I'm using windows 10, OnePlus Nord Buds 2. Help would be appreciated, thanks

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Why does Spotify take control of my Bluetooth earphones' stereo output?

I own Bluetooth earphones, which I have paired with my Windows 10 laptop.

I can happily listen to audio from various different sources, until I play music through Spotify. Once I do, Spotify seems to completely hijack the stereo output device. If I pause the music and attempt to listen to another source (such as YouTube), I can no longer hear the audio playback despite seeing the amplitude bar move in the Windows sound settings. However, if I resume the Spotify music whilst the other sound source is still outputting, I can hear the other sound in the background of Spotify's output. Without restarting the earphones, I have found two ways of restoring the ability for other applications to output sound:

• If I right click on the earphones' Hands-Free device in the Windows playback device list and select "Test", I briefly hear the test output via the Hands-Free device and then suddenly the stereo output from the non-Spotify application continues.
  
• If I close Spotify whilst music is playing (and so the other app's audio can be heard in the background), the audio from the non-Spotify application can be heard again. However, if I close it whilst Spotify is paused, the non-Spotify audio does not resume.
  

I've found a hotfix in which disabling "Show desktop overlay when using media keys" from the Spotify settings prevents this issue from occuring, but what is causing this strange behaviour?

Note: I've disabled the ability for applications to take exclusive control of both the "Stereo" and "Hands-Free" playback devices for my earphones, to no avail.

 

Bluetooth Headphone Won't Connect in Stereo Just in Hands Free

Hi

I have a pair of WH-1000XM4 headphones

Pre their update (2.5.0) I got them to work as when connecting via Bluetooth it showed both LE and Stereo and I selected the Stereo, it worked great and audio was very good.

Since I reinstalled Windows 10, the Bluetooth pairing only shows WH-1000XM4 and Windows defaults to Hands Free and consequently the audio is very poor and headphones are unusable.

How can I change a device from Hands Free to Stereo when then Stereo one isn't listed in Devices?

There seems to be no way to change this or add the Stereo device?

It works on my other Windows 10 laptop and on this one before I reinstalled Windows but not now, very odd.





Thanks

Nick

 

Bluetooth headset appears in Device Manager as both a "Hands Free AG Audio" and "Stereo" but cannot connect as "Stereo"

So up until today, my bluetooth headset (EnacFire E60s) had been connecting as a Stereo device, and I had perfect audio quality. However, for some reason, today, it ceased connecting as stereo, and only as a hands-free audio device with poor sound quality.
I've attempt every fix I can think of. Manually attempting to connect from Device Manager (it either won't connect, or connect as Hands-Free again), disabling Handsfree Telephony (will completely disconnect, and cannot reconnect until after I restart my computer
and turn it back on), uninstalling every audio and bluetooth related driver and reinstalling them, using Command to do the fix from 2019. I am completely stumped, as to why all of a sudden these would stop connecting properly. Please help...