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I know this is my own fault. But what i did was this
first i wrote this command 'sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio' and then i wrote again 'sudo apt-get install pulseaudio' and now the sound doesn't work properly
Sound Settings

And the Indicator doesn't work either, it's just grayed out. The shortcuts are not working either.
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Alsamixer is working, and this is the only way i change change the volume at the moment:
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jeggy@jeggy-XPS:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [PCH            ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
                      HDA Intel PCH at 0xf1c00000 irq 52


jeggy@jeggy-XPS:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
ALSA lib conf.c:1686:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:11:0:Unexpected end of file
ALSA lib conf.c:3406:(config_file_open) /etc/asound.conf may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it
/usr/bin/pulseaudio: error while loading shared libraries: libpulsecommon-1.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC665 Analog [ALC665 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC665 Digital [ALC665 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

VLC sound is not working, am getting this error: enter image description here

Jeggy
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It seems like I'm unable to comment, so I'm putting my comment into this answer.

Could you open a terminal (Control + Alt + T by default) and enter the command alsamixer? You should see a bunch of volume levels. Make sure they are towards the top of their bars and unmuted ("OO" is unmuted, "MM" is muted at the bottom of each bar).

If it doesn't look like anything's wrong, could you post a screenshot of the alsamixer window?

Espressofa
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When you removed pulseaudio, all packages that depended on it will have been removed. I guess this is the issue.

So, reinstalling pulseaudio alone will not do - it only contains the pulseaudio sound server.

On my comp, searching for pulseaudio in software center returned the following installed packages. Try installing them and see if that solves your problem.

libcanberra-pulse pulseaudio-module-bluetooth pulseaudio-utils pulseadio-module-gconf gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio libpulse0 libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libpulsedsp pulseaudio libsdl1.2debian indicator-sound pulseaudio-module-x11

Of course, you may not need all these packages (gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio for instance).

Alternatively open software center and look into your history. You'll be able to find out what packages were uninstalled along with pulseaudio. Install them and check.

Prasanth S
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  try this..

open your terminal and type

  sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-sound-applet

it will uninstall the gnome-sound-applet and reinstall it.

farhan
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The simple and quickest way to fix this problem. Open Terminal and then just copy and paste this 

systemctl --user enable pulseaudio && systemctl --user start pulseaudio
Sumeet Deshmukh
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Krilan Shrestha
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Check the basic settings are correct:
System tools > System settings > Sound > Output volume to on

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