External Sound Card not being detected

[Nathan Maslin]

It was working however something seemed to have happened but I can't see what, I have tried all the USB ports and rebooting the machine, nothing seems to have restarted the device correctly

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: pulseaudio 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-54.57~16.04.1-generic 4.8.17
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-54-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.6
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/hwC0D2', '/dev/snd/hwC0D0', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D8p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D7p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D3p', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0c', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p', '/dev/snd/controlC0', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
Date: Mon Jun 12 14:20:39 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-05-20 (22 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.2)
PulseList: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
Symptom: audio
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 05/03/2017
dmi.bios.vendor: Intel Corp.
dmi.bios.version: BNKBL357.86A.0046.2017.0503.1744
dmi.board.name: NUC7i7BNB
dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation
dmi.board.version: J31145-303
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIntelCorp.:bvrBNKBL357.86A.0046.2017.0503.1744:bd05/03/2017:svn:pn:pvr:rvnIntelCorporation:rnNUC7i7BNB:rvrJ31145-303:cvn:ct3:cvr: