Audio cut out on 1.21 snapshots, 23w46a and previous.

Upon starting a game, I have no audio on the snapshot version.  Audio works fine on last stable release.

As I have had no issues running snapshots prior to this, I thought game play would proceed as normal.  Instead, while the game loads and runs, there is no sound, and the game exits with an exit code of -1073740791.

 

Steps to duplicate:

1) Launch Minecraft Launcher

2) Launch latest snapshot.  Issue presents itself on game's main menu.

Issue does not present itself on stable release version.

 

I have already gone through the normal troubleshooting steps that have been recommended by the community, short of uninstalling/reinstalling the game.