Audacity 2.3.3 & Sony USB Turntable
I have two Asus Laptops OpenSUSe and Audacity work fine with this USB Turntable on both machines (although Sony claims they do not support this).
Using the Sound control panel in windows 10 pro on one of the two laptops will permit the Laptop to act as an Amp and Speakers for the turntable. On the second laptop (windows 10 home) this DOES NOT work.
Using windows 10 and audacity on either laptop (pro and home) to attempt to record results in a -9999 unexpected host error when attempting to start monitoring on the line USB 2.0 Codec that should provide the recording input from the Turntable. Is there any additional information I can provide Sony, Asus or Microsoft to help determine why windows is having a problem connecting to this device based on that error message? Can I turn on logging in Audacity and get additional information that could help determine the nature of the problem in greater detail?
Thanks in Advance.
Sorry, I can’t help with the -9999 error…
(although Sony claims they do not support this).
Virtually all USB turntables (and USB microphones, etc.) are “Class Compliant” which means they work with the standard Microsoft-supplied drivers. (They should also work with standard Linux drivers.)
Using the Sound control panel in windows 10 pro on one of the two laptops will permit the Laptop to act as an Amp and Speakers for the turntable. On the second laptop (windows 10 home) this DOES NOT work.
[u]Listen To This Device[/u] should work without running Audacity (or any other application).
Translating my poor explanation – “listen to this device” works on the Windows 10 pro box and does NOT work on the Windows 10 home box.
Translating my poor explanation – “listen to this device” works on the Windows 10 pro box and does NOT work on the Windows 10 home box.
Since we know the hardware works, and I assume the USB port is OK, that must be a driver problem.
Try uninstalling the driver. (It should re-install automatically when you plug-in the device again.):
You can also try re-installing the driver which will sometimes fix strange problems -
Right-click Windows Start icon and open the Device Manager.
Open Universal Serial Bus Controllers (at the bottom of the list).
Right-click on the USB audio device and select Uninstall Device.
Unplug and re-plug the USB and the driver should automatically re-install and sometimes it will reset-reconfigure the driver and start working.)
Doug,
While it may seem simple to you & everyone else, your driver solution worked to solve the 9999 error I was getting.
I had tried updating drivers, directly in device manager and checked via Windows Updates, but hadn’t uninstalled the USB device entirely, and wouldn’t have even seen the USB device in the manager because I’d been looking at the USB port and not the device (it was unplugged at the time).
Little things, man.
Thank you!
I’m glad it worked for Jason. However I tried that on both boxes including reinstalling the Realtek audio driver for the sound portion of the system. I am agree this may be a driver error. What I was hoping for was to get the actual error from the actual call in audacity to the driver that failed to see if that could help Sony, Microsoft or Asus in determining the nature of my problem. I even went so far as to disconnect all USB devices and remove all hidden drivers from windows 10 on both systems. Since I have multiple USB devices (a video recorder, the turntable, my phone and tv tuner
USB drives several flavors and a mouse). After removing all hidden devices I added the mouse back in , the laptop was hard to control from the touchpad for me. I then tried the USB Turntable first – same failing results both machines. Only one machine allows listed to this device to work. Audacity still had the -9999 error.
Thanks for the help and I am glad this worked for one person.
Thanks – this can be closed if that is done here.