@mitu
It works again. I re-install PipeWire and AudioPulse from rasPi config and everything works great. thanks for your support

@mitu
I just reinstalled alsamixer and now everything is working. still no idea what caused this issue. made a backup image of my sd card now. thx for ur replies bud, learned a little more about alsa✌🏽

@mitu thanks for the response, unfortunately lr-mame2000 doesn't run any of my roms (it's a pretty old set, not sure if that's a problem or not). I've spent far too much time on this so I think I'll just get some USB-powered speakers and use the adapter device. Cheers!

@viragored said in USB Audio almost working – what am I missing?:

The pop-up window box still reports "On-board audio disabled etc..." but basically it's all working :-)

That's ok, the Audio menu is meant to configure only the on-board audio, hence the message. External (USB/GPIO) sound cards are not supported.

@mitu

That did it!

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I have "pulse" sound when moved between games and now there is in game sound!

The audio level control in Retropie settings shows zero and will not control the in game volume. I will use Putty to find a good level for now.

!THANK YOU!

I will post this info as a review in the site that I got it from in the hope that it helps someone else.

@technicaljunky It's not a problem if PulseAudio is present - the only issue for you seems to be EmulationStation's audio settings, which should be solvable with the correct configuration.

@mitu Thank you! Very simple solution, and it works perfectly! I didn't realize you could add scripts in there.

I still get the fun "failed to find mixer element" when I run the script, run a rom, or shutdown the system, but I'm not too worried about that. At least the audio works in both configurations now.

@crush ... Ok testing complete. The powered hub will work with or without the adapter pulling power from the adapter if present.

--> Shutdown Pi.
--> Add USB hub *unpowered.
--> Add USB audio.
--> Bring back up.
Result: Same odd behavior with the controller etc. on different newer hub.

-->Shutdown Pi.
--> Plug in power adapter to USB hub.
--> Turn on.
Result: Everything works as expected.

So in my case it was a voltage issue with the X-Arcade and the USB audio being on the same USB hub.

I was able to get my USB headset to work.

First I changed from mame4all-pi on RetroPie 4.5 to lr-mame2000 on RetroPie 4.7.1 because I learned mame4all-pi doesn't have an option to rotate the display and my objective is to play classic vertical arcade games on a vertical (rotated) monitor.

Second I created /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf (using sudo vi) containing:
options snd_usb_audio index=0
options snd_bcm2835 index=1
options snd slots=snd_usb_audio,snd_bcm2835
(leaving dtparam=audio=on in /boot/config.txt)

This reorders the "cards" so the USB headset is card 0, hdmi is card 1 and PWM is card 2. What I found is dtparam=audio=off still configured the USB headset as card 1 for whatever reason and I didn't get audio. After reordering it worked without any other modifications (although ES gives an error about unable to set volume, which is probably just a minor configuration tweak).

@mth75 What are the settings in Retroarch.
Do I have to change anything in the audio-driver section?
My setting is sysdefault:CARD=USB

ATM I have sound in ES but not in the emulators.

If the sound card is compatible with Linux (should be), then all you need is disable the on-board sound card and it should be automatically used.
Some details, added over time by various RetroPie users, are in Sound docs.

@brandflake11 One is with the alsa-base.conf file present as above (for USB audio), the other is with alsa-base.conf either deleted or commands commented out (for no USB audio and default built in speaker). I'm not familiar with a diff unfortunately.

@pscotto1234 said in USB Audio broke after latest updates:

Any suggestion?

Wait for an update to EmulationStation to solve this part.

EDIT: or you can manually modify the config file to set the AudioDevice to 'HDMI'.

Well I am starting to think that this USB audio chip I have is simply not compatible with the Raspberry Pi Zero W. My reasoning:

1 - USB Circuit works fine with Windows Desktop and with Raspberry Pi 2.
2 - USB Circuit not detected through USB Hub on my original Pi Zero W.
3 - Loaded Retropie 4.5.1 on spare SD card and plugged it into spare Pi Zero W. Without modifying config and overlays to run DPI I was able to get wifi working without any trouble.
4 - Using SSH logged into the Pi and then plugged the USB audio circuit directly into USB on Pi Zero W.

USB audio still not detected.

I think I am going to have to look for a different chip.

I do find it curious that it works on a Pi 2 but not a Pi Zero.

Thanks everyone for the help. I will check back in when I have a different chip.

Thanks!
KB

@mitu will do. I just now finally got to configuring all of my retroarch.cfg files since i switched to retropie 4.4. Backed up my config folder now. Already had the emulators and libretrocores folders backed up. So now i can do a full update tomorrow.

@Gaprofitt Is RetroArch configured with alsa or alsathread as audio driver ? Enable verbose logging with the Runcommand options menu and check the /dev/shm/runcommand.log file to see what/where does RetroArch errors out.