I've always switched back and forth over the years on baremetal o/s's. Sometimes I feel its necessary.
Question, are you plugging in at the standard mini jack on the machine or are you by chance plugging into the audio jack of an hdmi monitor? I was using the hdmi monitor and had serious intermittent issues. Once I replugged into the standard audio output it was 100%. Note: I downloaded Google Chrome into the Fedora VM template and run ALL the audio within Chrome. I had problems running some sound out of the other browsers so I just use Chrome now.
Patrick
Dallas
but his issue of google ot playing the music from bandcamp.com or soundcloud is weird. I have to go into the googe settings and reset the preferences and then it works again.