[LAU] USB cassette player only recognized as mono device

Arve Barsnes arve.barsnes at gmail.com
Mon Apr 22 18:10:26 UTC 2013


On 22 April 2013 19:54, Jim Henderson <hendersj at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've just purchased an inexpensive USB cassette player in order to
> archive/preserve some audio cassette recordings of some interviews I did
> years ago, and I've run into a slight issue with the detection of the
> device.
>
> The device identifies as a JMTek USB Audio Device (Vendor 0c76, Device
> 160a).  I'm using openSUSE 12.2.
>
> When I plug the device in and connect to it with Audacity, and I only get
> a mono channel (rather than a stereo setup).  Looking at the output of
> "lsusb -v", I see that the input terminal is identified as a microphone
> with one channel.  (Output of lsusb -v is at the end of this post)
>
> If I start a Windows XP VM in Virtualbox and connect the device to that,
> it is recognized (in Windows) as a stereo device, and I can record left
> and right channels, so the hardware should be recognized as having stereo
> channels via USB.  There are no special drivers installed for the Windows
> VM (it was just "plug and play").
>
>
Are you sure you get actual stereo output in Windows? I also got a cheap
usb cassette player last year, and I got a stereo recording, but both
channels were the same.
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