Audio not working in wired connection, works on bluetooth

[CtrlValCanc]

It appears that FOR NOW the issue has been resolved by itself, let’s see if it will remain this way.
Meanwhile, I am now contemplating whether it’s possible to have multiple profiles active for the same device, allowing for switching between my headset and soundbar. I am also curious about the number of profiles and whether there is a way to minimize them.

I attempted to search the forum without success. I currently have a soundbar connected to the optical output and a headset plugged into the motherboard’s back panel, but neither of them is producing any sound.
Yesterday I managed to get the headset working somehow, though the soundbar still wouldn’t function. However, today neither of them are working at all.
Right now my kernel version is 6.4.11 Zen with the KDE Desktop environment.
My hardware is:
3600x
b550 aorus master
nvidia 3070ti

Here the output of inxi -Fxxc0z | eos-sendlog for more precise info about my system

Here some output that might (or might not) be useful:

inxi -Aaz
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 06:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228b
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 08:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.4.11-zen2-1-zen status: kernel-api
    tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.77 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl

systemctl --user status pulseaudio.{socket,service}
Unit pulseaudio.socket could not be found.
Unit pulseaudio.service could not be found.

 systemctl --user status pipewire-pulse.{socket,service}
● pipewire-pulse.socket - PipeWire PulseAudio
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.socket; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sun 2023-08-20 11:31:08 CEST; 9min ago
   Triggers: ● pipewire-pulse.service
     Listen: /run/user/1000/pulse/native (Stream)
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/pipewire-pulse.socket

ago 20 11:31:08 falou-eos systemd[994]: Listening on PipeWire PulseAudio.

● pipewire-pulse.service - PipeWire PulseAudio
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.service; disabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sun 2023-08-20 11:38:57 CEST; 1min 14s ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire-pulse.socket
   Main PID: 3594 (pipewire-pulse)
      Tasks: 3 (limit: 38264)
     Memory: 3.3M
        CPU: 17ms
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire-pulse.service
             └─3594 /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse

ago 20 11:38:57 falou-eos systemd[994]: Started PipeWire PulseAudio.

yay -Qs pipe                                           
local/gst-plugin-pipewire 1:0.3.77-2
    Multimedia graph framework - pipewire plugin
local/kpipewire 5.27.7-1 (plasma)
    Components relating to pipewire use in Plasma
local/libpipeline 1.5.7-1
    a C library for manipulating pipelines of subprocesses in a flexible and convenient way
local/libpipewire 1:0.3.77-2
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - client library
local/libwireplumber 0.4.14-1
    Session / policy manager implementation for PipeWire - client library
local/pipewire 1:0.3.77-2
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor
local/pipewire-alsa 1:0.3.77-2
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - ALSA configuration
local/pipewire-audio 1:0.3.77-2
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - Audio support
local/pipewire-jack 1:0.3.77-2
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - JACK support
local/pipewire-pulse 1:0.3.77-2
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - PulseAudio replacement
local/pv 1.7.0-1
    A terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline.
local/wireplumber 0.4.14-1
    Session / policy manager implementation for PipeWire

yay -Qs pulse
local/libcanberra 1:0.30+r2+gc0620e4-3
    A small and lightweight implementation of the XDG Sound Theme Specification
local/libpulse 16.1-6
    A featureful, general-purpose sound server (client library)
local/pavucontrol 1:5.0+r64+geba9ca6-1
    PulseAudio Volume Control
local/pipewire-alsa 1:0.3.77-2
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - ALSA configuration
local/pipewire-pulse 1:0.3.77-2
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - PulseAudio replacement
local/plasma-pa 5.27.7-1 (plasma)
    Plasma applet for audio volume management using PulseAudio
local/pulseaudio-qt 1.3-1
    Qt bindings for libpulse

Here what you can see in the System Audio Settings:

And here what you can see in pavucontrol:

[CtrlValCanc]

The audio disappeared again.

[d-air1]

The only source of audio output I see is the one listed under inactive cards. Have you tried turning that on? If that card is truly supposed to be inactive, (mine is), then whatever source of audio it is supposed to be using is not being detected.

In which case you could try using the command alsamixer to see what is being detected and if anything is disabled.

[CtrlValCanc]

It appears that running sudo pacman -S alsa-firmware alsa-utils fixed the problem. It never represented itself for now.

And the one under inactive was the nvidia one, not the motherboard on-board!

[d-air1]

Cool, glad you solved the problem. You should mark your post as the solution.