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
============== JOURNAL OUTPUT ========================== 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 ======================== JOURNAL OUTPUT END =====================
On 7/4/21 12:03 AM, Javier Perez wrote:
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
The tape player will appear as a microphone, so the audio won't automatically go to your speakers. You would need to setup a loopback for that.
The problem with audacity is that it doesn't really understand Pulseaudio. Click on the spot to make it start monitoring, then use pavucontrol to switch the input device. Then it will work.
Hi, sorry, it is still not working. In Audacity I cannot see the Recording Device
In Pavucontrol, I can see the device in configuration using the profile "Analog Stereo Input}" and it shows on the tab Input devices as Port: Microphone
But in Audacity, it does not show up as part of the "Recording" Devices. In fact, it shows on the Playback devices!
How can I fix this?
Thanks
Using Audacity-freeworld
On Sun, Jul 4, 2021 at 3:33 AM Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 7/4/21 12:03 AM, Javier Perez wrote:
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
The tape player will appear as a microphone, so the audio won't automatically go to your speakers. You would need to setup a loopback for that.
The problem with audacity is that it doesn't really understand Pulseaudio. Click on the spot to make it start monitoring, then use pavucontrol to switch the input device. Then it will work. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
On 2021-07-18 11:00 a.m., Javier Perez wrote:
In Audacity I cannot see the Recording Device
No, you can't. That's why you have to use pavucontrol. In audacity, you should pick "ALSA" and "default" for the recording options. Then beside the microphone icon, there's a meter with "Click to Start Monitoring" written on it. Click that. Then go to pavucontrol's recording tab. There should be an entry for audacity with a dropdown to the right. In that dropdown, pick the USB device. Now audacity will be recording from that.
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