I teach beginner painting classes at various retirement centers for a living. For the job I set up a class room in the facilities the atendees live in and I need to bring with me absolutely everything they could need for the class, including music. Right now I’ve just been using my phone to bluetooth music to a pair of JBL Pulse 5 speakers. It sounds great but hogging my phone is kinda rough.

I got curious if the steamdeck even had bluetooth to maybe do this instead of my phone and I discovered it does. I’d really like to set the steamdeck to do this since a phone call mutes the music and is pretty awkward.

That said, the steam deck isn’t a mini windows PC and I have no clue how to do jack diddly with linux. Are there any guides I can follow online on how to do this? I need to get the music onto the steam deck and then somehow quickly/easily DJ that music. I guess I’d need a music player that is optimized for like streamers or something. If that is even a thing.