EarCandy – Smart Volume Management App

By , Published September 27, 2009

EarCandy is a smart volume manager for PulseAudio that fades applications in and out based on your current activity.

It will automatically mute your music when a Movie or a YouTube video starts. And will mute the video when a Skype call comes in.

EarCandy can 'sniff' out applications to tell what kind of app they are meaning less work for you!

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It's easier to watch this app in action than to explain it! Take a peek below: -

Installation

You can install EarCandy by adding the following PPA: -

Jaunty/Karmic PPA: https://launchpad.net/~earcandy-devel/+archive/ppa

Update and then install with: -

  • sudo apt-get install earcandy
Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Anonymous

    Killer app.

  • http://blaniel.blogspot.com/ Dangger

    This looks fantastic. Too bad my mic doens’t work in ubuntu.

  • Mohan

    Fantastic app.

  • Josh P

    when I installed it, it actually installed /usr/bin/ear_candy
    but the menu command it added was just “earcandy” no underscore…

    • Name

      thank you for pointing that out josh, I couldn’t get it to work at first.

  • flocki

    Very nice. I have been looking for that!

  • el_ingeniero

    It has a memory leak, pretty bad. At one point it was using 1.2 GB of laptop RAM. And changing the rules isn’t exactly intuitive. I’m going to wait a while before trying it again.

  • Mahesh Mohan M.U

    I installed it. But, it is not launching in my karmic box.