Linux Audio question: I have a USB microphone that I have hooked up to my PC. My system detects it, but after a while will fail to pick up audio unless I unplug the mic and then plug it back in.

My question is, what is this, and why is it happening?
@noelle Ubuntu family. I'm running Pipewire nowadays, but I'm pretty sure the problem predates it to when I was strictly using PulseAudio.

@sean Huh. That is an odd problem. ...what specific member of the Ubuntu family? This feels like a memory leak in the audio input controller.

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Basic triage first steps should be to collect more information..

1) Does this happen with other microphones on the same computer

2) Does this microphone cause this problem on a different computer

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