Difficulty with Linux Mint using Moode as an A2DP sink

[willyside]

Good Afternoon,

I am attempting to output audio from my laptop, a Linux Mint 18 64-bit system with a Plugable USB-BT4LE bluetooth dongle. I can connect to my moode (4.2) audio player's bluetooth renderer as an A2DP sink (and moode's "Playback" screen reports the bluetooth connection from my laptop), but no audio is actually output by the moode in this configuration. I've tried test sounds, as well as selecting bluetooth as the audio output device in VLC on the Linux Mint laptop and playing a sound file.

I have, however, tried connecting my iPhone SE to the moode's bluetooth renderer in the same manner, successfully playing audio from various apps on the iPhone.

I have also been successful at playing audio to a Windows 7 laptop as an A2DP sink with the same Linux Mint laptop that has thus far been unsuccessful outputting audio to the moode.

Incidentally, although it's not a configuration I'll need, I was also unable to use the Linux Mint laptop as an A2DP sink for the moode.

So, to sum up:

Linux Mint ---> Moode: No sound
Moode ---> Linux Mint: No sound
iPhone ---> Moode: Sound!
Linux Mint ---> Windows 7: Sound!

I am using what I believe to be the latest bluetooth dongle firmware from Plugable (https://plugable.com/2014/06/23/plugable...-on-linux/)

Any ideas?

Regards,
William