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Thanks for the help. I ended up disabling the internal analog output with pavucontrol. This made vlc always use the bluetooth speaker.

Thanks a lot for the answer, kmf31. My knowledge about this is very limited, but it looks like alsa does not work with the bluetooth stack. Selecting the speaker inside pavucontrol seems to work. Do you know how to do this from the command line? I need to do this from a script running on the Raspber...

I am trying to start VLC from the command line on a Raspberry Pi and play on a bluetooth speaker. I have tried using this: vlc music.mp3 --aout="My Speaker" Unfortunately it doesn't work but is playing on the analog output. Inside the VLC GUI I can see My Speaker in the Audio|Audio Device ...