045a:500e — Chiba MP3 Player
SONICblue, Inc.
- Vendor ID
- 045a
- Product ID
- 500e
- Combined
- 045a:500e
- Decimal
- 1114:20494
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a Chiba MP3 Player manufactured by SONICblue, Inc.. The vendor ID 045a is registered to SONICblue, Inc. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 500e is the product ID that SONICblue, Inc. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 045a:500e SONICblue, Inc. Chiba MP3 Player.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 045a:500e SONICblue, Inc. Chiba MP3 Player
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 045a:500e, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 045a:500e. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=045a, idProduct=500e.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_045A&PID_500E USB\VID_045A&PID_500E&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_045A&PID_500E"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
Chiba MP3 Player:
Product ID: 0x500e
Vendor ID: 0x045a (SONICblue, Inc.)Driver help
Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page.
Raw usb.ids entry
The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:
045a SONICblue, Inc. 500e Chiba MP3 Player