Need to restart pulseaudio whenever I play any audio

Hi,

I recently got an audio interface, which I’ve been using to record some songs on reaper. Everything was mostly working fine, until one day after finishing recording I realized that the audio playback on chrome wasn’t working (reaper was closed and the interface was unplugged). If I open a youtube video, it doesn’t play unless I mute the video. When the video is pulled up, it works with sound if I run systemctl restart --user pulseaudio, but if I open a new video, the issue is the same and I need to restart pulseaudio again. I can’t get audio to work at all for reddit and spotify even after restarting.

I’m using KDE and have the manjaro-pulse package installed. I don’t think I messed with the audio packages at all, but I’ve had issues with JACK with my laptop, so maybe that has something to do with it? Not sure. I’ve rebooted my computer several times and it doesn’t fix it.

I’d really appreciate if anyone had suggestions. I’ve been using manjaro for over two years now and never experienced any issues like this. It normally works seamlessly. Thank you so much!

Reaper Depends on alsa-lib and has Optional Dependencies’ for pulseaudio or jack2

If Reaper is configured to use ALSA it will take exclusive control of audio interface and pulseaudio will not be able to play audio

If Reaper is configured to use JACK and system has pulseaudio-jack installed, audio playing in pulseaudio can be re-directed to use PulseAudio JACK Sink bridge connection to JACK

Please provide more information about “issues with JACK”