#991385 pulseaudio: bluetooth auto-loopback for a2dp doesn't work since pulseaudio 14

Package:
pulseaudio
Source:
pulseaudio
Description:
PulseAudio sound server
Submitter:
Sander van Grieken
Date:
2021-07-22 09:06:04 UTC
Severity:
important
#991385#5
Date:
2021-07-22 09:02:52 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

* What led up to the situation?

I had a working A2DP bluetooth sink working on a headless device, by utilizing
the auto-loopback feature :

load-module module-bluetooth-policy a2dp_source=1 hfgw=0

Somewhere between pulseaudio-13.0-5 and pulseaudio-14.2-2 the auto-loopback
functionality stopped working.
The audio is still arriving on the device (as seen by pavucontrol peak-meters),
just the loopback module isn't loaded anymore.

* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?

I downgraded pulseaudio to 13.0-5, which restored the auto-loopback feature