Out of nowhere, I lost ALL sound. Nothing from music player, system sounds, YouTube in various browsers. All sound stopped. I didn’t do anything, I was just watching a YouTube video, and all of a sudden… gone.
Ideas? Suggestions?
Did you check connections (assuming desktop with wired speakers)?
Other than that, have you had your ears checked lately ? (humor)
Do you have a headset to try ?
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Maybe you pressed a key combination that deactivates the sound?
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I’ve muted accidentally before and spent significant time figuring it out!
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Happened to me also. That’s why I am asking…
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No, it’s not muted. I’ve been checking. External speakers are plugged in. Unplugged, plugged back in to be sure.
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Did you play the youtube vid via the browser?
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Yes. But ALL sounds are gone. No system sound when emptying trash, no sound from fooyin or Elisa.
Puuh…weird 
If you have another loaded OS, try there. I know…that’s obvious…but still.
Bluetooth speaker works.
No idea what could have happened. I booted the latest EOS ISO, sound was fine. Booted back into my bare metal install of EOS and all is well. Perhaps an issue with this MiniPC as opposed to EOS.
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i had similar issue with audio on my old laptop i fixed the issue by reinstalling pulse audio
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I lost all audio in Firefox before out of nowhere as you describe, but I still had system sounds and my music player worked. Nothing was muted in System Settings > Sound, and the audio destination was correct, but when I ran:
pavucontrol
on the Playback tab, Firefox was muted.
You might peak at Pavucontrol and see if anything is muted there…
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Hello UncleSpellbinder,
install helvum ( see in pacman) it will maybe can help you!
Greets EOZ
So far, all seems well. As for Helvum, I’m not sure I’m in need of a patch bay.
I had a similar issue after I connected my laptop to the TV.
I was able to remediate the problem by changing the audio profiles. In KDE you can do that here:
when smth like that happens, a good start is inxi --verbosity=7 then scrolling up to the Audio portion is a good start.
Mine looks like this:
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 8
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228b class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_pci_acp6x v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s
lanes: 16 bus-ID: 06:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h/19h HD Audio
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s
lanes: 16 bus-ID: 06:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.11.5-arch1-1 status: kernel-api
Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.6 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin
U can see the rough details of ur sound setup this way. devices and drivers and sound server setup.
It should at least tell you if you’ve suffered a driver failure., or if pipewire crashed.
Speaking of, if I recall correctly, you can restart pipewire with
systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber
Just to see if that helps.
This has just happened to me as well today. Happily listening to music (tidal app from aur), paused it to go to lunch, returned and nothing works from any source. Audio was through line out port so I switched to usb audio - nothing.
Booted into windows on second ssd - all fine so not hardware. Booted back to EOS - still nothing. However I can get sound through the test button on the audio settings but music will not play.
Hah, early this morning I muted my browser and took a few minutes to figure out where to unmute it. Hit the wrong key I’m sure.