I'm not able to get any sound when connecting a pair of 3.5mm headphones through a usb-c to aux adaptor (so on any of the usb-c ports). When plugged in, I can immediately see in sound settings that it is recognized and I can select it as an input/output, but when I do so I still get no sound from it.

I use Samsung usb-c to aux adapter which has its own DAC. I have another adapter without DAC but that one doesn't even get recognized by my mac. I often work on my windows partition (bootcamp) and it works flawlessly, plug and play, so it clearly isn't a hardware issue. I don't use the 3.5mm port because I get cracking noise from it.

I am on the 2018 13" macbook pro, with Monterey version 12.4.

thank you for the help.