USB Sampling Rate Reader?

None of the devices I own have an indicator of what the sampling rate is, so I cannot confirm what is actually coming out the USB of my Squeezebox Touch.

Is there is a simple device I can plug into the USB that has a readout? The only result I can see from googling is this dyi project but I'm hoping there is something more refined such as a device like this.

 

I don't know of a simple, off-the-shelf, device you can buy that'll do what you're asking.

Unlike the USB power-meter that you linked to, which can be done as just a dumb V/A meter that happens to be spliced into the USB power lines (and which requires no specific knowledge of "anything USB"), determining what is being transmitted in terms of data over USB requires a full-blown USB receiver. On top of which you then have to read the actual data stream, and fully decode it, to get at the data you're interested in.

 

Thank you, Torq.

Maybe a stupid question...but could my laptop be considered a USB receiver and then use a program to read the USB data?

 

Yes, but whether it'll let you do what you want here is a "maybe".

If you plug the USB output from your Squeezebox Touch into a USB port on your PC, it might show up as a "Microphone" or "Line Input", or i as it's explicit device name (or it might not show up at all). If it does show up, you can likely get the information you want via either a USB Analyzer or audio recording software.