Hi.

I got a USB tape player to mp3 to convert some old tapes I had lying around.

When I connect the tape player to the USB port it is recognized as a USB PNP Audio Device.

Nevertheless, when I press play, I cannot hear any audio. Audacity cannot listen to it either. My Bluetooth headphones work fine

I searched google about how am I supposed to configure it but could not find anything.

How can I troubleshoot this? I got lost with the audio subsystem several versions ago. I am using Fedora 33

This is what I get on the journal when I plug the USB cable

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Jul 04 01:54:32 pepewin.localdomain kernel: usb 3-2: new full-speed USB device number 14 using xhci_hcd
Jul 04 01:54:32 pepewin.localdomain kernel: usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=e5b7, idProduct=0811, bcdDevice= 1.00
Jul 04 01:54:32 pepewin.localdomain kernel: usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Jul 04 01:54:32 pepewin.localdomain kernel: usb 3-2: Product: USB PnP Audio Device
Jul 04 01:54:32 pepewin.localdomain kernel: usb 3-2: Manufacturer: ZhuHai JieLi Technology
Jul 04 01:54:32 pepewin.localdomain kernel: usb 3-2: SerialNumber: 20160823
Jul 04 01:54:32 pepewin.localdomain kernel: usb-storage 3-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
Jul 04 01:54:32 pepewin.localdomain kernel: scsi host6: usb-storage 3-2:1.0
Jul 04 01:54:32 pepewin.localdomain kernel: usb 3-2: 9:1: bogus dB values (-12800/-12700), disabling dB reporting
Jul 04 01:54:32 pepewin.localdomain kernel: input: ZhuHai JieLi Technology USB PnP Audio Device as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.4/0003:E5B7:0811.000E/input/input37
Jul 04 01:54:32 pepewin.localdomain kernel: hid-generic 0003:E5B7:0811.000E: input,hidraw0: USB HID v2.01 Device [ZhuHai JieLi Technology USB PnP Audio Device] on usb-0000:00:14.0-2/input4
Jul 04 01:54:32 pepewin.localdomain mtp-probe[7226]: checking bus 3, device 14: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2"
Jul 04 01:54:32 pepewin.localdomain mtp-probe[7226]: bus: 3, device: 14 was not an MTP device
Jul 04 01:54:32 pepewin.localdomain mtp-probe[7253]: checking bus 3, device 14: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2"
Jul 04 01:54:32 pepewin.localdomain mtp-probe[7253]: bus: 3, device: 14 was not an MTP device
Jul 04 01:54:32 pepewin.localdomain rtkit-daemon[1038]: Supervising 6 threads of 4 processes of 1 users.
Jul 04 01:54:32 pepewin.localdomain rtkit-daemon[1038]: Successfully made thread 7258 of process 2945 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '1000' RT at priority 5.
Jul 04 01:54:32 pepewin.localdomain rtkit-daemon[1038]: Supervising 7 threads of 4 processes of 1 users.
Jul 04 01:54:33 pepewin.localdomain kernel: scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     OK                             PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
Jul 04 01:54:33 pepewin.localdomain kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0
Jul 04 01:54:33 pepewin.localdomain kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Unit Not Ready
Jul 04 01:54:33 pepewin.localdomain kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current]
Jul 04 01:54:33 pepewin.localdomain kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Add. Sense: No additional sense information
Jul 04 01:54:33 pepewin.localdomain kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Read Capacity(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
Jul 04 01:54:33 pepewin.localdomain kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current]
Jul 04 01:54:33 pepewin.localdomain kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Add. Sense: No additional sense information
Jul 04 01:54:33 pepewin.localdomain kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] 0 512-byte logical blocks: (0 B/0 B)
Jul 04 01:54:33 pepewin.localdomain kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] 0-byte physical blocks
Jul 04 01:54:33 pepewin.localdomain kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Write Protect is off
Jul 04 01:54:33 pepewin.localdomain kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
Jul 04 01:54:33 pepewin.localdomain kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Asking for cache data failed
Jul 04 01:54:33 pepewin.localdomain kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jul 04 01:54:33 pepewin.localdomain kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Unit Not Ready
Jul 04 01:54:33 pepewin.localdomain kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current]
Jul 04 01:54:33 pepewin.localdomain kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Add. Sense: No additional sense information
Jul 04 01:54:33 pepewin.localdomain kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Attached SCSI removable disk
Jul 04 01:54:33 pepewin.localdomain kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Unit Not Ready
Jul 04 01:54:33 pepewin.localdomain kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current]
Jul 04 01:54:33 pepewin.localdomain kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Add. Sense: No additional sense information

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