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I have been having an odd bluetooth issue, where my headphones will connect and work totally fine until I try and do something in Rhythmbox. I have mostly noticed that it will stop working whenever I hit next song, but I think it actually happens whenever I do any Rhythmbox command, like pausing too.

I'm running Ubuntu 18.04, with pulseaudio 11.1, rhythmbox 3.4.2 and blueman-manager 2.0.5.

I tried running 

sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart
pactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover

which gives me this message: 

[ ok ] Restarting bluetooth (via systemctl): bluetooth.service.
Failure: Module initialization failed

and followed the top 2 solutions to that problem discussed here: PulseAudio can not load bluetooth module but none of that has worked for me. The only thing that has been successful is restarting my computer, but even then it only works until I skip a song.

Any thoughts on what might be causing this?

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Found the solution shortly after posting sorry for all the fuss!

For others with this issue, I installed Pulse Audio Volume Control as suggested here No sound from bluetooth headset, but it's detected

I just had to switch the Rhythmbox output, which was still going to my computer speakers for some reason even though the system sounds were correctly going to my headphones.

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