No Sound In Rhythmbox after uninstalling Ear Candy

[lildigiman]

After Uninstalling Ear Candy, Rhythmbox has now sound.

Tried Restarting Computer. All other sound enabled software appears to work.

[lafleche.jonathan (arrow-69)]

I have a similar problem where earcandy simply muted everything when it was running. After exiting and uninstalling it all those programs were still muted. I had to reset my ALSA/pulse configuration to get everything back to normal. I installed earcandy through aptitude. It was version 0.5. Apparently this isn't a very common problem since all I see online is praise for this program. However, for me, all it did was break my audio. :-(

[lafleche.jonathan (arrow-69)]

Definitely though if you simply want to restore sound in rhythmbox delete the .pulse folder in your home folder, then restart. That took care of it for me. However I don't know what's causing this problem, since I'm running a very vanilla install of Lucid

[lildigiman (lildigiman)]

Haha, I did find a fix myself after I took a break from the stress. It looks like all my PulseAudio enabled programs were set to spit out to the wrong output (in my case HDMI, rather than my 8th inch jack). Just opened up PulseAudio's Control Panel, and changed the output back to normal.

Still, this seems to be a bug that should be fixed, for those who do decide to uninstall Ear Candy.

[lafleche.jonathan (arrow-69)]

That's interesting. I also have two sound outputs (HDMI/standard). So I wonder if what was happening was earcandy directing all my applications to HDMI output. For me though gnome-volume-manager was set at the right output, but maybe somehow the individual applications were channeled to the other one? Is that even possible?

[lildigiman (lildigiman)]

That was my exact scenario as well. I'd feel this could be a common issue, should more people start to use Ear Candy.

[KillerKiwi (killerkiwi2005)]

Interesting issue, I've played with a priority list but have yet to implement a working version...

[lafleche.jonathan (arrow-69)]

I've been playing around some more with various versions of earcandy to see if I could get something to work. (Is there a git repository for earcandy??) Apparently, version 0.9 of the software seems to (somewhat) fix the problem for me. If I use the setup script to install earcandy, the program launches and sits in the tray, but has no effect on my sound. However, if I launch earcandy directly from the ./build/scripts-2.6 folder, then I get some functionality. Specifically, the fading effect works between Rythmbox and VLC, but not the browser ALSA plug-in. Additionally, the preferences dialog fails to open, which means I have no further way of troubleshooting/tweaking settings.

Let me know if my posts are uninformative and a waste of your time.

[KillerKiwi (killerkiwi2005)]

the 0.9 bzr branch is the most recent branch
https://code.launchpad.net/~killerkiwi2005/earcandy/0.9

I'd really like to get priority lists / unload stream saving module in there and push it out but real life intrudes

Its based on quickly now so

quickly run

Your browser should become a Video stream by default so it wouldn't fade by active window with a music player

[Jonathan Hudson (jh+lpd)]

I'm having a similar (no sound problem with Ear Candy (EC) (the dev version from the PPA). It seems that EC sets the application's volume to zero (and it's volume to full), resulting in no sound. Manually changing the apps volume (e.g. for Totem) just results in a battle for the app volume that EC wins, continually pushing it back to zero. For apps that give me the option (Mplayer, VLC) and can change the audio component from pulse to alsa and it all works as expected, but this is not (IMHO) a satisfactory workaround.
So it's goodbye to EC and back to manually moving streams to the USB head set.

(AMD64, Lucid,
 $ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: VT2020 Analog [VT2020 Analog]
  Subdevices: 2/2
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: VT2020 Digital [VT2020 Digital]
  Subdevices: 2/2
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1

[ChrisP (me-chrispalmer)]

same problem as jh reported
but unable to to remove ear candy as package reports broken so as a novice with Ubuntu I seriously fouled up?

Oh I am also getting a message saying new sound device discovered and moving every thing to it

I guess I will have to try to find anything to do with ear candy (how I have yet to look) and remove it and hope my machine still runs.

I wish I had known I was going to be guinea pig

[Michael Rodríguez-Torrent (mrtorrent)]

Any progress on this bug? Is Ear Candy being actively developed? The fact that it just mutes everything makes it pretty useless. The fade sounds pretty nice when you try and turn an application's volume up, though! :)

[Daniel (internalkernel)]

Same problem as everyone else, Earcandy _decided_ to mute Firefox for me... Now I'm googling to figure out how it managed to do that.

Why doesn't Earcandy provide a method to _undo_ its changes?

I have to admit, Earcandy is a great idea... that is, of course, if it worked.

[Andrew Harter (pitifuldead)]

Honestly, I would just like this program to get out of my life.
I tried to uninstall and everything was still mute.
So I reinstalled, opened every application I could think made sound, played something on all of them, then changed the settings of each one to 100% on each slider, and unchecked the fading box for good measure.
Nothing is mute anymore, and I'm never downloading that thing again.