How do I find out which application plays sound?

So I keep having a sound that was playing often in the background and no event seems to be tied to it, that sounds very similar to service-login.ogg in /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/.

I don't know what other information to give but its driving me nuts and like I said I can't see any event or program that is causing it to happen. Any help with what it is, or tracking it down is greatly appreciated.

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To find out which application plays this sound please open the Sound Settings... menu and watch the Applications tab while the sound plays:

On the command line we may also issue the following command to list various informations on a current audio stream through Pulse Audio:

pacmd list-sink-inputs

This will display not only the application streaming audio (application.name) but also the PID of this application (application.process.id) and information on the media content.

If we do not wish system sounds to play we can disable these in the Sound Effects tab from the Sound Settings... and see if the annoyance stops.

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