I just got a new bluetooth speaker, an Urbanears Stammen (concrete grey)
I can connect to it from my phone, using Bluetooth, and play back sound no problem. But I can't get my Windows 10 laptop (Dell XPS 15) to use it as a playback device.
I can connect and pair to it no problem, as you see in the screenshot below
It also shows up under bluetooth in the device manager. It's not listed under "Audio inputs and outputs", which I thought it should be, but I can see it under "Sound, video and game controllers".
But I can't select it as a playback device 🙁
I found this relevant superuser question: Windows 10 computer paired w/ bluetooth speaker, but doesn't send music to speaker
And I tried the suggested steps listed there, but nothing helped 🙁
Any further ideas I could try?
Best Answer
Windows does not appear to play friendly with bluetooth pretty much at all. Rather ridiculous but whatever.
My Fix was to go to settings; Bluetooth & other devices; then from there go to your device and just completely remove it. Then add your device again and you'll get your setup prompts (if any originally) again and it'll function as it's supposed to.