I'm looking for a simple USB speaker for a Pi 3.  I'm not after HiFi
quality, just something that will play a simple MP3 file when required.

Various search engines are not being my friend on this, I have tried a
simple one sourced via Amazon, which is billed as being suitable for a
Laptop, but whilst it works fine on Windows, it won't play on my Pi.
When plugged in I get a low volume of white noise, but it fails when I
try to run it.

Running speaker-test -c2 I get a short clicking noise then

speaker-test 1.1.3

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 2048 to 16384
Period size range from 1024 to 1024
Using max buffer size 16384
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 1024
was set buffer_size = 16384
  0 - Front Left
Write error: -5,Input/Ouput error
xrun_recovery failed: -5,Input/Ouput error
Transfer failed: Input/output error

Any suggestions ?

Adrian
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