raspberry pi bluetooth audio

as of 10/2017 versions of raspbian, it appears that bluetooth raspberry pi bluetooth adio doesn't work.

A lot of the thread below is for any bluetooth (probably adding a USB adapter for the RPI).

My attempt is for Raspberry Pi Model 3 B which has bluetooth  on the board.

Select audio device by right clicking the gui symbol and selecting audio device.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=192859

https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/53408/automatically-connect-trusted-bluetooth-speaker

https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/bluetooth-audio-raspberry-pi-3/

note after all the audio crap, VLC playback of video produces a black box, no video on the 7" raspberry pi screen frame buffer.  Not so useful.

bluetoothctl
scan on
<search for device>
copy device address
pair <device>
connect <device>

should show connected on gui bluetooth gui.

right click the gui audio, and bluetooth device should be available as a device for audio.

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