Headphones muted when launching an application

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Hello, I will try to express the problem as best as I can because it’s pretty weird and I can’t understand it.
So I use both speakers and headphones on my desktop. I have set auto-mute ON in alsamixer.
Everything was working fine but now when I use headphones and I launch some applications, the master sound is set to 0. It happens when I launch Terminal and VS Code, and I haven’t found other app that provokes it.

I did reset my Fedora recently, I had this bug before and even with a fresh reset it still happens.
So my Fedora is almost “vanilla”, I haven’t touch neither installed anything to affect audios.

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There have been several audio bugs fixed by the regular updates. Have you updated to the latest available packages to see if your problem is solved? From a terminal window the command sudo dnf upgrade -y should handle that.

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Thank you for your answer but I didn’t fix it.
Also I fixed it by removing a line in my bashrc :

alsactl --file ~/.config/asound.state restore

I used this to make sure I had the good alsamixer configuration but I guess I will find another way

I must say audio on Linux is a real pain in the ass

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