This is a very cool program it’s called EarCandy and what it does is it fades out the sound that you don’t need anymore. All right, let’s say you listen to music right on your rhythm box and you surf on the net and you see a video you want to watch and then when you play the video, you know you usually have to mute that or stop the music that you're playing then you watch the video and after you're done with the video you have turn that music back on, right.
What this one does it takes of that, so as soon as you're playing the video, it’s going to fadeout the music for you and when you're done watching the video is going to fade back the music in that where you left off, right or it will continue without you ever pausing, okay. So it works the same thing if you’re like having a Skype call, so you’re listening to music, you're watching a video whatever and a Skype call comes in and you want to pick it up and you want to take it, right.
What it’s going to do is going to fadeout the music, the video whatever it is and will let you continue the call, right. And after the calls over it are going to fade you back in and that’s how it works. So I really like this program. Now, it’s not perfect but let me demonstrate it for you. So hold on a second.
[Demonstration]
That’s pretty much how it works, you know you have your program running it doesn’t matter. You don’t have to stop the other one. All you got to do is play it the one that’s just to your liking and have hierarchy, like you know, Firefox would be better than the video player and the video player is better than the music player so that just how it goes, okay. Now to get it, you install kind of different this time, okay but you start to use the damn terminal. So, bust out the terminal and they’ll give you the command lines here to enter it but first you have to install this package called VZR.
So all you got to do is get install VZR and after that you just fold the command line here and to tell you what do, right. So copy the first one and that’s pretty much how you install that one, okay. So run that command line and the next command line is just to run it, okay but that’s running too in the terminal CD, Arcadia and all that. But I’d like to make a shortcut so basically all you can do to make a short cut is point it to where that file is located, okay. So you go to your menus here and edit menus.
And then in here you know you make a new one, new item and I already made one so EarCandy here and in there all you got to do is point it to EarCandy folder and inside that folder is EarCandy app and that’s how you will run it but that’s the command. The same thing you can do with the same command is in the startup, if you want to auto load it every time you start up, just go into the startup applications and do the same thing, you know. Go to add and then inside all you're going to do is the same type of commands, okay. So EarCandy and then EarCandy the application and that’s pretty much it if you want to auto load.
Now they got some options in here so this is the EarCandy icon up here. Once you have it running. So I click on that you get preference and in here let’s say if you running a Totem, you see you will notice that all the things that’s running of the auto player, right. Firefox, Totem and then Rhythmbox. Now if it is says unknown you usually have to go and click Add and you click on the screen that it’s using like I don’t know if you have Amarok or something, click on Amarok, something and they should have an icon here if it was running and after that you will select whether it is a music player or video player, whatever. And I guess this is how the hierarchy of the thing is you know, like if it would be the top one, okay and then the music player and the video player will be like the two bottom one.
So that’s how that works. In advanced here, there's really nothing advanced. All you got to do is—in here they have the options of fading, how fast do you want the volume to fadeout, okay. So that’s pretty much all they got right now. There's some things I don’t like about this is that it doesn’t work with All Cool right now but it is workable and it’s still stable right now, okay but not all the programs will work as of now.
There's another annoyance that I have is sometimes you know when you're working with your music player and then you watch a video and the video inside of Firefox is too low and you know when it fades back, it’s fucking too loud. So you can’t even control that, you know the volume. I tried using the audio pulse, what's that? The volume control but it doesn’t work with this so I wish to have an option for that. But as far as this program, it’s very unique and I do like it. I hope it would be better overtime. So check it out, it’s fucking tight, okay.
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