Wale reduces the volume of apps to 0 if they don't make sound for 20 seconds. about wale

[catright]

Wale keeps every app's volume to almost 0 to prevent sudden huge noise, because we are amplifing all sound output physically via speaker's volume knob when we use Wale. If you don't like it so you want to stop it, then there is no way to do that only except you just stop using Wale. I'm really sorry for that.

In advanced view mode(F9), You can set Config(F3) - Up Rate to higher value. Then Wale will raise your volume faster but it can cause some fluctuations at sound output if it's too high.
You can set Config(F3) - Average Time to lower value. Then Wale will react faster to sound change but it can also cause some fluctuations too.
Please try some values to find them fits you or you could try Author's setting that is quite different to default.

Wale doesn't remember the 'original' volumes. Because it can't adjust the volume of an app which is not 'activated' and PC's sound session is keep changing very much, so Wale can't set back to the 'original' volumes even if it remembers them.

[gotex007]

Okay. I'll try to play around with the Up Rate a little. I'm new to Wale so I'm trying to make it work for me the best I can.

[ezijlstra]

Maybe an elastic up rate option would help get the volume quicker to target and still suppress fluctuations. The up rate would depend on how far the average is from the target. Something like this:
distance = target-avg;
dist2 = distance * distance;
uprate = uprateFactor*dist2 + minUprate

uprateFactor and minUprate are user settings.