The rules were a bit tougher to figure out. To get the volume of Amarok to turn down when I launched SMPlayer I had to create a whole new rule for it. Just setting “ALSA plug-in [mplayer]” to “Video Player” in the main “application rules” window didn’t do it. In fact, it did the opposite and would lower the volume of the video instead of the music.

I had to click the “Add” button, choose SMPlayer from the applications list and then set it as a “Video Player”. With that rule now in place, Ear Candy immediately began to lower the volume of Amarok. Success!

Hopefully that helps anyone who is reading this and having similar problems. because this is a great idea for a program and I wouldn’t want to turn anyone off from trying it out.

What does “Fade” do anyway? Does it mean it fades that application’s volume level or does it fade the levels of other applications when that one has focus?

Even deleting the rules had no effect. Even without any rules specified in the window it still faded out youtube videos and videos played locally in MPlayer. Amarok and Banshee running in the background were untouched.

I was about to try it with Xine but it appears I broke something serious mucking about with the rules because now when I start it I get this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “./ear_candy”, line 220, in
ec = EarCandy()
File “./ear_candy”, line 90, in __init__
self.load()
File “./ear_candy”, line 62, in load
client.from_xml(el)
File “/home/jon/0.3/Client.py”, line 173, in from_xml
self.volume_default = int(el.getAttribute(”volume_default”))
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ‘100.0′

I hope a .deb file is coming soon, cuz I can’t get the bzr working!

//MadsRH