Ear Candy, A Nice PulseAudio Volume Manager

Ear Candy is a cool PulseAudio volume manager, it will automatically mute your music when a video(Youtube, local movie, whatever) starts or when a skype calls in. It is a sound level manager that nicely fades applications in and out based on their profile and window focus.

What works now:

- 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)

Whats being worked on:

- Optional plugins, allowing pause of banshee / rhythmbox etc via DBUS
- Global mute of managed streams



Installation:

Open your sources.list and add the Launchpad PPA:

$gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

And add the PPA at the end of the file:

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

Change jaunty part with your ubuntu version.

Add the PPA key:

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

Update and install ear candy:

$sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install earcandy

You can run Ear Candy with $ear_candy command, add it to start up and add application rules.