W10 to Speakers with Bluetooth Transmitter

cormie

Hey folks,
I'm looking for a way to play audio from my laptop in one room, on speakers in another. I tried this bluetooth transmitter: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00YCWEBSY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 but it seems to have a problem that it can't be charged/powered from mains and in use at the same time :mad: I also had great trouble pairing it with W10 and it seems I need to "remove device" and pair it again every time I want to use it, so completely inconvenient.

I'm looking for something that I can keep constantly plugged in, as my speakers are, that will be constantly paired every time my laptop is on and I can just switch between my laptop speakers and the other speakers from the laptop itself.

Would also be great if it could easily switch between my laptop and my phone.

Any feedback would be great

Lu Tze

cormie wrote: »

Hey folks,
I'm looking for a way to play audio from my laptop in one room, on speakers in another. I tried this bluetooth transmitter: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00YCWEBSY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 but it seems to have a problem that it can't be charged/powered from mains and in use at the same time :mad: I also had great trouble pairing it with W10 and it seems I need to "remove device" and pair it again every time I want to use it, so completely inconvenient.

I'm looking for something that I can keep constantly plugged in, as my speakers are, that will be constantly paired every time my laptop is on and I can just switch between my laptop speakers and the other speakers from the laptop itself.

Would also be great if it could easily switch between my laptop and my phone.

Any feedback would be great

Do you have wifi? Would something like this do?

https://www.google.ie/chromecast/speakers/

cormie

Thanks a lot for the suggestion, never heard of that but it looks interesting. I have wifi indeed, but I'm fearing what I suspect what might be the case with this device, is it only for supported services like spotify etc or can it transit ALL audio from a laptop, so windows sounds, music, video, youtube and pretty much everything I'd hear from the laptop speakers, or is it only for streaming music from music services and not from your hard drive through winamp etc?

Lu Tze

cormie wrote: »

Thanks a lot for the suggestion, never heard of that but it looks interesting. I have wifi indeed, but I'm fearing what I suspect what might be the case with this device, is it only for supported services like spotify etc or can it transit ALL audio from a laptop, so windows sounds, music, video, youtube and pretty much everything I'd hear from the laptop speakers, or is it only for streaming music from music services and not from your hard drive through winamp etc?

Im not sure to be honest, have a look through the reviews though, it is likely it will be mentioned

cormie

Thanks a lot, I asked the question on the google product forums and on a few similar device listings on amazon

coylemj

OP, does your laptop not have built-in Bluetooth? I thought it was pretty standard these days.

cormie

It does, communicating with the speakers in the other room is the problem, they don't have bluetooth

sligojoek

Have you looked at soundbars. They nearly all have bluetooth these days

cormie

Thanks for the suggestion but I wouldn't be interested in changing my speakers, they are nice ones, just haven't got the latest tech