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I am new to Ubuntu and have no sound coming from my laptop speakers, external speakers via audiojack, or bluetooth headphones.

I have confirmed that the speakers and headphones work, and that all of the sound is definitely not muted. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Alsamixer and installed pulseaudio. I have identified my sound card (nvidia) and installed the latest drivers, then uninstalled them and installed them again. I have opened this file using gedit: gksu gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf per instructions on another answer (No audio after fresh install of 15.04) and pasted this line at the bottom of the file: options snd-hda-intel model=3stack

These all solved the issue for other users but not for me.

Interestingly, in pulseaudio under the playback tab, the sounds of my music are registering, just not being output to any of my devices.

TheOdd
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jenboi
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Have you installed the media codecs. It's common for beginners to forget to install the mp3 codecs. If not open up your terminal and type in the following

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
Karanja Mutahi
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The 15.04 can be buggy at times. Have you done

sudo apt-get install build-essential

before installing PulseAudio? If not, do it. The audio functions too need essential libraries and compilers at time. Now I know this is basic, but perhaps, it may have been overlooked. It had happened to me a couple of days ago.

So next, check this:

  1. Go to the dash on the top-left corner of your screen
  2. Type in pulseaudio and open the pulseaudio volume control
  3. Open an mp3 file and let it play while you check these two tabs. Check the options available one-by-one and select the one which allows you to listen to the mp3 file being played. Output devices Configuration
  4. If/when you will have been successful in fixing your problem, go brew yourself a warm latte.
muru
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Rohan Puranik
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