If your audio device gets disconnected/switched, Minecraft won't have sounds.
Steps to replicate:
1. Launch Minecraft
2. Disconnect audio device (by detaching USB connector)
3. Reconnect audio device
or
2. Switch to a different audio device (eg. Headphones -> Speakers)
3. ----
Problem:
Game sounds won't play and you have to relaunch Minecraft.
Possible Solution:
Have a setting in Minecraft to set the audio output to the selected audio device
Eg. (Discord)
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Thank you for your report!
However, we are already tracking this issue, and this report is a Duplicate of MC-44055, which has been marked as Won't Fix - while this behaviour is not desirable, the developers have said that they will not or cannot fix it.
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