What is the state of aptX in Ubuntu 20?

bluetooth 20.04 sound pulseaudio

The original creator was no longer able to maintain the PPA he had for supporting this. Someone else took over managing a PPA using the original creator's sources.

https://launchpad.net/~berglh/+archive/ubuntu/pulseaudio-a2dp

If you run into any issues, here is the github issue that tracked this work - https://github.com/EHfive/pulseaudio-modules-bt/issues/85#issuecomment-618870211.

Hope this helps!


The Good News

The latest PulseAudio includes support for aptX. This is version 15.0 released on 2021-07-27.

Support for LDAC and AptX bluetooth codecs, plus "SBC XQ" (SBC with higher-quality parameters)

PulseAudio now supports the LDAC and AptX codecs for A2DP. In order to use them (...)

The Bad News

Ubuntu 20.04 is running version 13.99.1.

$ pulseaudio --version
pulseaudio 13.99.1

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