Chromium without sound after recent update

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Similar to No sound in chromium since last updates (2023-03-08/09) I don’t have sound on Chromium, but the system sound is working fine, and Firefox is also working with sound.

What can I do to fix this issue? The update also broke my webcam on Chromium, but I think this deserves a separate thread.

Any help is appreciated.

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Please post more information about system and audio sub-system:

inxi -SMAaz

and check the audio stream from chromium:

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System:
  Kernel: 5.15.197-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.2.1
    clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
    root=UUID=29be3570-21c7-4c44-8f3a-4926cb8bc6e5 rw quiet
    udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.5.4 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.21.0
    wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: TUF B360M-PLUS GAMING/BR v: Rev X.0x
    serial: <superuser required> part-nu: ASUS_MB_CNL uuid: <superuser required>
    Firmware: UEFI vendor: American Megatrends v: 2811 date: 05/27/2020
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA TU116 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:1aeb class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: Lenovo FHD Webcam driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-2:2 chip-ID: 17ef:4831
    class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
  API: ALSA v: k5.15.197-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.4.9 status: off with: pipewire-media-session
    status: active tools: pw-cli
  Server-3: PulseAudio v: 17.0-98-gb096 status: active with: pulseaudio-alsa
    type: plugin tools: pacat,pactl

The second command pactl list sink-inputs did not produce output.

I fixed the version of the kernel years ago to avoid recurring issues after Manjaro updates.

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Nevermind! Somehow I must have pressed some KDE shortcut that muted the Chromium application. And this setting was permanent after multiple reboots.

I saw the “muted phone” icon in the top right corner of the Chromium icon opened in the bottom KDE bar. Clicked it and the sound is back again.

Sorry for the noise.

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