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

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