Not only do I love Kagu (and consider myself wedded to it -- hopefully for life!), I think my recent experiences (and minor frustrations) make me think it's appropriate for me at this time to revisit an issue I raised in September in the Kagu 1.0.8 thread:

QUOTE :1. How do you build your playlist without having Kagu (seemingly) begin playing the instant the first item is entered? Is there a way to delay the starting of play until the full playlist is assembled? UNQUOTE Trevarthan's answer to this was, surprisingly from him, a bit fuzzy and unresponsive.

Considering that currently with my use of my Bluetooth headphones I'm not able to hear the opening bars of any musical number when first initiating play, I believe it is even more important (to me, anyway) that a playlist being assembled does not start playing automatically the moment the first musical number is added to it. First, it becomes disconcerting (again, to me) to be starting to hear the music while I'm still concentrating on adding more items to the playlist. Also, I may wish to edit the playlist before I begin listening to it. There is no way I can figure out how to return to the start of a musical item once it's begun playing.

Now, I recognize that there may well be Kagu users out there who are in such a hurry to have their music begin playing, even while they're still adding to their playlists, that they don't wish to delay their listening gratification the additional second of two it might take to hit the play button to commence their listening. And I suppose I have to reluctantly acknowledge (if not necessarily respect) this need and desire.

But since my problems are currently compounded by a delay in receiving sound through my Bluetooth headphones (probably a buffer issue, as has already been suggested in this thread) my frustration is increased.

My appreciation is deep for all those responsible for Kagu and the a2dp hack (you know who you are!) which has made Kagu, to my knowledge, the only application where I can use my Bluetooth headphones to listen to my music on my N800. But as further improvements are being considered, can we possibly rethink the usefulness (or necessity) for this automatic music start feature? Cannot an option be given to the user which way he or she wants it to be?

And in conclusion(!), do we know whether the new 2008 operating system will permit utilization of Bluetooth stereo headphones without installing the a2dp hack?