Update for a Sunday Afternoon

Oh boy! Driver updates! I’m very interested in taking these, because it’s a Qualcomm system. I doubt Microsoft considers Snapdragon a semi-experimental platform for Windows 11, but I do. Much more interesting than having another x64 system.

What I was most curious about is the Bluetooth update. Audio/video synch was way off with my Sony SRS-BTX500 Bluetooth speaker. The native Windows driver was almost certainly negotiating the AAC codec. For $6, I bought Bluetooth Goodies’ replacement driver in order to negotiate AptX. It was money well spent.

Before taking the updates I returned Bluetooth to the native Windows driver. Would the update fix the audio sync problem?

Most definitely yes! Is AptX — a Qualcomm specification — being negotiated, or has AAC been fixed? I don’t know, but it seems I will be able to stick with the Windows driver. If anything goes wrong, I’ll flip back to Bluetooth Goodies.

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