Zorin 17.1 Sound Stopped Working For Apps

I am having a weird thing happening with my sound.
I unplugged my speaker and plugged in headphones.
Then sound stopped with all apps such as Spotify, Netflix in the browser.
I hear sound when I raise or lower the sound.
Now when I switch back to the speaker I have the same problem. I have tried rebooting, but it didn't fix it.

How are Your Speakers and Hedphones pluged in? Audiojack? USB? And put You the Headphones in the same Port like Your Speaker?

They are plugged in via an audio port.

I had to restart the sound device and then it started working correctly again.

systemctl --user restart pipewire.service
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The command also works with pulse audio. However I prefer ALSA and on another OS I resolved my surround sound system not playing through all the speakers by tweaking audio settings in audacious media player (audio). I try to avoid pipewire and pulseaudio wherever possible.

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