No notification sound KDE

I’m having an ongoing issue on my wife’s computer. Two issues actually.
First I can’t make the notification sound to work, no matter what I do. I just updated to Plasma 5.20.3, hoping that would fix it, but it didn’t.
Mistake 2: I decided to uninstall the pulse and reinstall it, hoping that might do the trick. Not only that didn’t change anything, but I also lost my audio icon audio in the system setting audio. How ever, I can still access and open the audio from the system tray icon.

System:
  Kernel: 5.8.18-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.3 Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: B85M-DS3H-A v: x.x 
  serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends v: F2 date: 08/10/2015 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-4771 bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Haswell rev: 3 L2 cache: 8192 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx 
  bogomips: 55900 
  Speed: 954 MHz min/max: 800/3900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 954 2: 878 
  3: 875 4: 861 5: 876 6: 876 7: 990 8: 866
  Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Caicos PRO [Radeon HD 7450] vendor: ASUSTeK 
  driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: ati,radeon 
  unloaded: modesetting resolution: 1: 1920x1080~60Hz 2: 1440x900~60Hz 
  OpenGL: 
  renderer: AMD CAICOS (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.8.18-1-MANJARO LLVM 11.0.0) 
  v: 3.3 Mesa 20.2.2 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio 
  vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.18-1-MANJARO 

Any ideas appreciated.

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I also forgot to mention, my audio was muted at start up at first. So I was recommended to do the following:
systemctl --user mask pipewire.socket --now
systemctl --user disable pipewire.service --now
That fixed the mute at start up, but is it possible that this may have caused to kill the notification sound?

Update: I fixed my audio icon back in the system settings. Now I just need to figure out how to get the notification sound to work?

Check in Settings > Audio if the Playback Streams for Notifications is like this and change it

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I’ve already done that many times, but still no notification sounds! :frowning_face:

I finally fixed the issue by installing the PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol).
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Troubleshooting#Auto-Mute_Mode
:slightly_smiling_face:

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