Bluetooth speakers work for any apps?

**simplesim73** · 09-02-2012, 10:50 AM

Hi
I am looking at getting a portable Bluetooth speaker to play music from my Nexus. Most of my music collection is on a NAS so I use apps like skifta to stream. When I buy my speakers (eg Creative D100) will they play any noise output from the Nexus when paired instead of the internal speaker? Sorry to sound dumb but I don't know how these things are set up so didn't know if they are limited to the Goole music app or not.

Thanks

**ChromeJob** · 09-02-2012, 12:48 PM

Pairing a BT speaker should work fine. In fact, I'm eyeing the Bose and Logitech offerings....

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**retsaw** · 09-02-2012, 12:59 PM

They will, but Bluetooth on the Nexus 7 has significant lag with most sounds, for the Youtube app and Play Movies Google has compensated for this so it isn't a problem for those apps, and it isn't a big deal for playing music, but it can be really annoying having other sounds occur a second or so after the action it's paired with especially when playing games. So I wouldn't recommend it for general use, but for videos (in Googles apps at least, I haven't tested other ones) and music its okay.

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**simplesim73** · 09-02-2012, 02:04 PM

Great, thanks for the advice and information about lagging, and you say it wouldn't matter for music. Bose ones are very nice, at the moment I am looking at the portable and cheap Creative D100 - with your info I am happy to go ahead

**muchby** · 09-02-2012, 05:29 PM

I have Logitech Bluetooth speakers ($69) which work perfectly with my tablet and a Logitech Bluetooth receiver ($40) plugged into my Bose wave radio and couldn't be happier with the result. Two reasonably priced solutions to Bluetooth connectivity between the Nexus 7 and speakers and audio systems. Both work well with videos (Netflix, etc) and music.

**PablofromCA** · 09-02-2012, 06:29 PM

I'm using a jambox with my 7 and it works perfectly. No lag on any apps.
Found one on Craigslist for $80.

**tflash** · 10-01-2012, 12:50 PM

Originally Posted by PablofromCA

I'm using a jambox with my 7 and it works perfectly. No lag on any apps.
Found one on Craigslist for $80.

I'm using a jambox with the N7.
It doesn't lag on movies. (mx player)
Music, I don't know because there is nothing to sync it with (video)

Games: Yes it has a slight lag of about 1/2 sec. I was playing GrannySmith, and all the sounds are delayed from the action on the screen.
Keyboard clicks and touch screen feedback sounds: all are delayed and it's very annoying.