Bluetooth frustration

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My wife just bought a new Lenco CD 300 cd player with Bluetooth.

She wanted to listen to CDs on her iPhone over Bluetooth but when I turn on Bluetooth in the CD 300 the only Bluetooth enabled device in our place that recognises it as a connectable device is our TV despite multiple PCs, computers, tablets, and handys.

Probably I should have posted this under the complaints thread.

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Most of the users for example on brack.ch complain about the bluetooth connection…it seems to be an issue…

https://www.brack.ch/lenco-cd-player…chwarz-1033601

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Have you tried all the usual:

On the device you are trying to connect to (like a phone):

Unpair all other devices.

Make sure any other devices are well away.

Make sure you are following the connection instructions correctly.

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The device is working as expected, the CD player will only output a sound signal to a bluetooth speaker or headphones (the TV in this case acting as speakers). The iPhone itself is designed to transmit audio via bluetooth, not receive it (other than as a mic input).

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Well done for spotting that. I feel dumb now.

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Only you?

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I feel dumber as I thought about it after I wrote my post and didn’t edit it...and let Castro look smarter

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I have tried to redeem myself by seeing if there was an app which converts your iPhione to a bluetooth speaker.

It appears there isn't.

There are many for PC sound to phone (using wifi) and syncing phones to play the same audio but none that would do what you want.

Looks like you'll need some bluetooth speakers or headphones.

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The CD player works OK with Airpods.

Not exactly what "her indoors" wanted but so is life........

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An iPhone makes a terrible speaker - that why people play music from their iPhone over Bluetooth speakers. If she just wants to listen to CDs at home, why does a normal CD player not do the job?

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Return the player, and maybe "burn" those cd's into mp3's and use the Iphone as a media player , or just buy a music player afterwards

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We have around 17 GB of mp3s distributed around various Windows PCs, Android Mobile Phones and older iPhones but my wife's new iPhone and Macbook are resisting all our attempts to transfer them.

It was much simpler when everything ran iTunes.

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I've never had a Mac, but I looked up how to play mp3's on a Macbook, and it says this:

"Open QuickTime on your Mac computer. Step 2. Drag and drop the audio file into QuickTime directly to open the MP3 file and play it right in QuickTime."

I apologize if that isn't of any help, though...

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QuickTime is an extensible multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. Created in 1991, the latest Mac version, QuickTime X, is available for Mac OS X Snow Leopard up to macOS Mojave. Apple ceased support for the Windows version of QuickTime in 2016, and ceased support for QuickTime 7 on macOS in 2018. As of Mac OS X Lion, the underlying media framework for QuickTime, QTKit, was deprecated in favor of a newer graphics framework, AVFoundation, and completely discontinued as of macOS Catalina.Wikipedia

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And we have over 1TB of FLAC on the home network, with multible physical backups.

Tom

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Because we have around 3000+ CDs ripped to FLAC, and physically accessing them is a PITA!

Tom

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Read the thread. They wanted to get the CDs to play over the iPhone from the CD player via blue tooth. Not everything is about the way "you" chose to do things.

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If you are trying to consolidate them, bring the MP3s to an external hard drive, if you have a lot, it'll take a little while - I have about 1TB of MP3s - but, with the music consolidated on the external HD, you should be able to play it on a most computers (even the MacBook) through Apple Music (the awful replacement for iTunes). Then it's a matter of making sure that your wife's phone's account is the same as the one on the MacBook, and you can transfer to music via a charging cable. It's very difficult to get music off of the iPhone and into the computer, but if she has purchased it through Apple Music, it should automatically be available on her computer if it's the same account. Otherwise there are third party software that can be used (I won't recommend any because I'm not a fan of any in particular).

Note, that using the physical cable, not bluetooth, is by far the best and fastest way to get the exact music you want off of the MacBook and on to the phone.

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You should be able to sync stuff via finder to your newer phone - connect it and then the phone sync options appear in finder on MacOS once you select the phone and you can pick playlists and the like as you did in iTunes. This of course assumes you have the mp3s on a drive which that Mac can see such as a local drive or NAS.