Ear Candy has broken my music playing

**cpcpcp** · April 3rd, 2011

Ear Candy is Bad. It has broken sounds & I can't remove Ear Candy as the package is reported broken

So I seem snookered.
I try to play music (MP3, Ogg whatever) in VLC or Totem and the volume control fades down to zero. I push it up and it fades down again. ie 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.

How do I get rid of Ear Candy please / fix the problem?

It seems to be known bug of Ear candy
https://bugs.launchpad.net/earcandy/+bug/608876

It is un-installing the broken package that I cannot handle?

PS for those who follow the link and look at the bug what is this Pulse thing?

**Dutch70** · April 3rd, 2011

(.pulse) is a folder where your settings are stored. (it is "dot"pulse btw)

Have you tried uninstalling from synaptic package manager?

If not, give that a shot, but first while you're in synaptic, click the "edit" button and select fix broken packages. See if you can uninstall from within synaptic then. Mark it for "complete removal"

You may also want to try opening a terminal and running...

Code:

sudo apt-get -f install

Then...

Code:

sudo apt-get remove earcandy

and...

Code:

sudo apt-get --purge earcandy

**cpcpcp** · April 3rd, 2011

Originally Posted by Dutch70

(.pulse) is a folder where your settings are stored. (it is "dot"pulse btw)

Have you tried uninstalling from synaptic package manager?

If not, give that a shot, but first while you're in synaptic, click the "edit" button and select fix broken packages. See if you can uninstall from within synaptic then. Mark it for "complete removal"

You may also want to try opening a terminal and running...

Code:

sudo apt-get -f install

Then...

Code:

sudo apt-get remove earcandy

and...

Code:

sudo apt-get --purge earcandy

Synaptic Package manager said it had fixed the dependency but
when untalling and it has been going for awhile now a window opened titled
Debcon on cjp-desktop
which said
General type of mail configuration:
and the drop down box gave the options of
no configuration
Internet Site - (visible)
Internet with smart host
satellite system
or Local only

Since Earcandy ought to have nothing to to do with email I will quit now and try your other instructions - it will not let me stop the process so it is reset time - leaving according to the warning the system in a broken state, bed and look again tomorrow

**cpcpcp** · April 4th, 2011

For now I have disabled ear candy in startup applications and restarting has fixed teh problem.

I will have a go later at removing this dreadful prog.

Thanks for your help Dutch70