noise on USB audio on RPi4B

2021-05-11 Thread Luca Castagnini
Hi everyone, I am asking for help with the following problem: I am trying to reproduce a song on the Raspberry Pi 4B using OpenBSD -current and an external USB audio dongle, but I hear only/mostly noise. The song is barely recognizable in the background and sometimes (rarely and randomly) it i

Re: noise on USB audio on RPi4B

2021-05-11 Thread Alan Corey
How clean is your power? Any way to try it on batteries, even just for a few minutes? On Tue, May 11, 2021, 9:02 AM Luca Castagnini wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am asking for help with the following problem: > I am trying to reproduce a song on the Raspberry Pi 4B using OpenBSD > -current and an

noise on USB audio on RPI 4B

2021-05-11 Thread Jim Erickson
i had the same problem with C-Media usb dac's. so i switched to StarTech and have had no problems since. relevent portion of dmesg follows: uaudio0 at uhub5 port 2 configuration 1 interface 1 "Speed Dragon USB Advanced Audio Device" rev 2.00/1.04 addr 9 uaudio0: class v1, full-speed, sync, channel

Re: noise on USB audio on RPI 4B

2021-05-11 Thread Alan Corey
I was doing a bunch of recording last summer. When I could run the laptop on batteries it worked quite well but if I plugged in the AC adapter there was so much noise it was unusable. And I was using a StarTech card but I don't remember the "Speed Dragon", just cm106-like. I picked up a couple c

Re: noise on USB audio on RPi4B

2021-05-11 Thread Luca Castagnini
Hi, >  > How clean is your power? Any way to try it on batteries, even just for a few > minutes? > I don't know how to answer, I tried two Usb charger, no idea about batteries. Also the same Pi+charger+USB DAC works with linux. For this reason I thought it could be either the HW not suppor

Re: noise on USB audio on RPI 4B

2021-05-11 Thread Luca Castagnini
Hi, I cannot find any Speed Dragon online, could send (me) a link to or a pic of the product? Thanks Luca > On 11 May 2021, at 16:21, Jim Erickson wrote: > > i had the same problem with C-Media usb dac's. so i switched to StarTech > and have had no problems since. relevent portion of dmesg f

Re: noise on USB audio on RPi4B

2021-05-11 Thread Alan Corey
I have this StarTech which isn't the Speed Dragon: https://www.startech.com/en-us/cards-adapters/icusbaudio7d And I only hear hum when recording now that I think of it. arecord -l on a Pi 3B gives an empty list. But it's plughw:2,0,0 under Alsa (on the Pinebook) On 5/11/21, Luca Castagnini wro

Re: noise on USB audio on RPI 4B

2021-05-11 Thread Jim Erickson
https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Sound-SPDIF-Digital-Stereo/dp/B00F7120TQ/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2DCWMU5DGRVNH&dchild=1&keywords=startech+usb+audio+adapter&qid=1620751731&sprefix=starttech+usb+audio+adapter%2Caps%2C221&sr=8-4 thats the one i use with no problems. hope that helps!

Re: noise on USB audio on RPI 4B

2021-05-11 Thread Luca Castagnini
Thanks guys. I've ordered one, let's see if I am lucky. Cheers Luca

Re: noise on USB audio on RPi4B

2021-05-11 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 01:38:09PM +0200, Luca Castagnini wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am asking for help with the following problem: > I am trying to reproduce a song on the Raspberry Pi 4B using OpenBSD > -current and an external USB audio dongle, but I hear only/mostly noise. The > song is barel

Re: noise on USB audio on RPi4B

2021-05-11 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 07:31:17PM +0200, Luca Castagnini wrote: > Hi, > > > >  > > How clean is your power? Any way to try it on batteries, even just for a > > few minutes? > > > > I don't know how to answer, I tried two Usb charger, no idea about batteries. > Also the same Pi+charger+USB

Re: noise on USB audio on RPi4B

2021-05-11 Thread Luca Castagnini
Hi, > The device is plugged on: > > uhub1 at uhub0 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "VIA Labs USB2.0 Hub" rev > > Is this an external hub? No. I am a bit confused indeed, according to dmesg uhub0 is usb3 and uhub1 is usb2, however if I attach the dongle to any of the four usb ports, I always