Install the smart PulseAudio volume manager-Ear Candy in Ubuntu

EarCandy is a nice PulseAudio volume manager,that automatically mute your music when a video starts. And will mute the video when a Skype call comes in.It’s a sound level manager that nicely fades applications in and out based on their profile and window focus.

Features:

- All volume adjustments are fades

- Fade out music/video players on skype call

- Fade to music player with focus when more than one

- Fade out music player when video playing

- Push sound to USB headsets on plugin

- Categories to assign to clients

- Sniffs desktop files to guess application category … music/video/VoIP

- Simplified pref UI for creating rules

- Volume sniffing to fix youtube video issue

- PID matching

- Reset volumes for streams on exit (so streams dont get stuck at a low level)

Install Ear Candy:

First,edit  /etc/apt/sources.list file by this command:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

add following lines to the file:

For ubuntu 9.04 users:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/flimm/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/flimm/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

For ubuntu 8.10 users;

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/flimm/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/flimm/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main

Add GPG key:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 6E73CA45

Now,upate and install Ear Candy:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install earcandy

Add a icon to Startup Applications

Right click on Applications on top left of your screen and select Edit Menus.

Select Sound &Video at left side and click on New Item at right.Then type Ear Candy in Name field,ear_candy in command field.

Clik OK and close Main menu window.

Now,you can start Ear Candy at Applications->Sound&Video->Ear Candy,you will see the Earcandy tray icon on top right.

Click here make it autorun at login

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