A Windows 7 Question...

[JIMV]

I tried Microsoft but those buggers want money for assistance...Yea Gods!

Here is the saga. My Windows 7 computer has 3 separate options under 'sound playback'...the first is the laptops crappy speakers. The second is an outboard USB DAC to powered desktop speakers. Lastly is a BlueTooth output to a bluetooth receiver rigged to my stereo. Here is the problem. The DAC is set as default. I can turn that on and off. I would assume I could turn off the DAC, enable the bluetooth connection and all would be well with the sound coming wirelessly at my stereo (15 feet away)...

Nope, that would make sense. Instead, even if I turn the DAC off and enable the bluetooth, the sound still comes out the powered speakers wired to the disabled DAC and not the speakers the enabled bluetooth is supposedly connected to. The bluetooth connection reads as fine and the DAC reads as disabled.

The question...in windows 7, how does one send sound to a specific device and actually have that sound go where the device is directing???

I can send sound bluetooth to the stereo from my android phone. Heck, I can direct sound via an app called Gizmo to the phone via WiFi and then from the phone via bluetooth to the stereo without trouble but I cannot get the laptop to bluetooth to the stereo's bluetooth receiver even though they say they are mated!

 

[lunatic59]

Right click on the speaker icon in your tray (lower right corner) and select recording devices. See if Bluetooth is enabled there. On my PC, the device must be enabled in both places for it to redirect the output.

 

[argedion]

not a bluetooth user but i do know the devices need to be paired. have you paired them? also do you have any other bluetooth devices that the computer could be trying to send to?

 

[JIMV]

Been paired..no other bluetooth devices

 

[JIMV]

Right click on the speaker icon in your tray (lower right corner) and select recording devices. See if Bluetooth is enabled there. On my PC, the device must be enabled in both places for it to redirect the output.

Tried...the machine refuses to let me select bluetooth regardless, unless I choose it as the default and disable my primary music playback DAC...

 

[argedion]

Tried...the machine refuses to let me select bluetooth regardless, unless I choose it as the default and disable my primary music playback DAC...

Sounds like a real pain. Is your bluetooth on Microsoft's accepted hardware list for windows 7?

Also it may be a pain but why not set it as default and when done set back the other as default? Not really what you want but it may be a work around.

 

[XplosiV]

If i recall correctly, bluetooth is designed to be a PAN (personal area network.) and has a very limited range, hence personal as oppose to LAN / WAN. So i would suggest moving equipment to within say a 3 feet range and see if you get any joy there.

 

[JIMV]

Not an equipment problem, a software problem...

 

[IOWA]

I tried Microsoft but those buggers want money for assistance...Yea Gods!

Here is the saga. My Windows 7 computer has 3 separate options under 'sound playback'...the first is the laptops crappy speakers. The second is an outboard USB DAC to powered desktop speakers. Lastly is a BlueTooth output to a bluetooth receiver rigged to my stereo. Here is the problem. The DAC is set as default. I can turn that on and off. I would assume I could turn off the DAC, enable the bluetooth connection and all would be well with the sound coming wirelessly at my stereo (15 feet away)...

Nope, that would make sense. Instead, even if I turn the DAC off and enable the bluetooth, the sound still comes out the powered speakers wired to the disabled DAC and not the speakers the enabled bluetooth is supposedly connected to. The bluetooth connection reads as fine and the DAC reads as disabled.

The question...in windows 7, how does one send sound to a specific device and actually have that sound go where the device is directing???

I can send sound bluetooth to the stereo from my android phone. Heck, I can direct sound via an app called Gizmo to the phone via WiFi and then from the phone via bluetooth to the stereo without trouble but I cannot get the laptop to bluetooth to the stereo's bluetooth receiver even though they say they are mated!

Many times you can select the sound output from the application itself, which then overrides the system defaults.