Gnome Settings not able to change sound device

[Rob Frohne]

This is a recent bug (last week or so). Fortunately a work around is to use https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/906/sound-output-device-chooser/
which works. I'm not sure this is the right package to put this bug report in. I mean the settings with the gear icon in Ubuntu 20.04. See the photo attached. When you select other options other than the default laptop speakers, you still get sound through the laptop speakers.

Thanks for all your hard work!

Rob

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.35.91-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-18.22-generic 5.4.24
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu21
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Mar 30 21:03:22 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-04-19 (347 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Alpha amd64 (20190326.2)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, it looks similar to bug #1866194