I'm stuck in a loop! No Sound, won't recognize motherboard jacks

[nikgnomic]

This motherboard has Realtek ALC4080 codec for onboard audio that is recognised as a USB device in ALSA

@nikgnomic

This article has good comparison between ALC1220 and ALC4080 codecs
The Realtek ALC4080 on the new Intel boards demystified and the differences to the ALC1220 | Insider | igor’sLAB
The audio specfications are no different, but ALC4080 has additional amplifiers for audio outputs and might have better audio quality
Audio controls in alsamixer are very similar to ALC1200 codecs, but ALC4080 has an internal USB bus to connect to the additional amplifiers and pre-amplifiers, so ALSA playback and capture devices in aplay -l and arecord -l are shown as USB devices

No sound from optical port (S/PDIF out - Realtek ALC 4080) with MSI MAG X570S Edge Max Wifi Mother Board - #13 by euler216

Looks like someone fixed this issue. At MPG X570S EDGE MAX WIFI compatibility · Issue #172 · alsa-project/alsa-ucm-conf · GitHub , perexg posted a fix. I went into my USB-Audio.conf file and made the same changes and I was able to get audio from the Optical output.