I just installed Audacity to make a quick edit on an a MP3 file.  I
installed 2.1.2 from the default Linux Mint repo, opened Audacity and
selected my file.  It played over my headphones just fine.   I closed
Audacity, then immediately opened it again to select a different file to
edit.  As Audacity opened I heard an audible 'click' over my headphones.
I could no longer hear anything over my headphones whether in Audacity
or via browser/youtube or other media player.

I discovered an AskUbuntu question with the same problem.  An answer
there said that we just needed to open Audacity and select Internal
Mic:0.   Tried that, and presto had audio over my headphones again.

Another answer on the same question recommended upgrading from 2.1.2 to
the current (then) version of 2.2.0 to get around the bug in the future.
I then uninstalled 2.1.2, and installed 2.2.2 from the ubuntuhandbook
repo.

Opened Audacity 2.2.2, only to discover that I now have no headphone
volume again, and this time changing the output to Internal Mic:0 did
not work.  In fact, I cannot get headphone output on any of the 10
output options.   Nothing plays over headphones now, not
youtube/browser, not files in VLC.

Installing Audacity has literally broken my laptops ability to listen to
music over headphones.

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  Headphones stopped working after use of Audacity. They are detected,
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