I have an audio / bluetooth / hardware problem with my beloved Apple AirPods Pro, and it is driving me crazy.
Often times, maybe daily, bluetooth works normally, until suddenly the audio signal starts crackling and distorting, stuttering, getting worse and worse until sound completely drops out.
Then it just does not work.
If I switch the codec however, it works again, for a short time, until it possibly stops working again.
It happens with any of the codecs for the A2DP Sink: SBC, SBC-XQ and AAC.
Here is an approximation of how it sounds: https://youtu.be/ABzkEHb3yG8?t=186
I use stock gnome bluetooth without any extra config.
I have scoured the wiki, the discourse, the archwiki, the pipewire gitlab, the gnome gitlab, and found nothing of merit