Comment # 3 on bug 1208123 from Takashi Iwai

We need to check how the problem can be reproduced with the raw access without
PA or PW daemon.  Namely, try the following:

- Prepare sample WAV files in different formats (16, 24 and 32 bit) and
different sample rates (44100 and 48000Hz).  You can try with sox to convert
WAV files, for example.

- For PW, stop the pipewire temporarily via

  % systemctl --user stop wireplumber

  and run aplay directly for the test WAV file such as

  % aplay -Dhw:0,0, -vv foo.wav

  where hw:0,0 corresponds to the card#0, device#0.  Take a look at
/proc/asound/cards and use the different number if your USB device is assigned
to a different slot.

- Verify the aplay runs with different formats and sample rates, check whether
the problem appears.

- If aplay alone doesn't show the problem, try to run arecord simultaneously
while running aplay, e.g.:

  % arecord -vv -Dhw:0,0 -r44100 -c2 -fS16_LE bar.wav

If the above still doesn't show the problem, you'd need to try the different
buffer/period sizes via --buffer-size and --period-size options for
aplay/arecord.