No Sound/Background Music in audio outputs

I don't know if these two things are correlated or not, but I just noticed today that there is no sound coming from my computer, no notifications or regular audio. I've already done the usual of making sure there's no headphones plugged in, making sure the audio is up and not muted, making sure it's on the correct output device, etc. But it's still not working. While doing that I also noticed that in the category of output devices there is something called Background Music. I don't recall that being there before. It might have been, since I rarely have to look in my audio settings, but it is there and I can't find a way to get rid of it. I searched on google and the only things that were popping up is programs I don't have and I don't believe I've ever used. I'm about to do a whole system restore to see if that can make it go away/fix my audio, but I figured I'd see if there is any help here first.