For clearification. When you said 50% height.. is that fluctuation/how much it goes up/down, or the width of the line itself?

By default the wallpaper should automatically adjust the height to the volume level over time based on what is actually visible. So if you are using the default settings you only have to wait for the louder audio from the previous device to go off screen. So it might just take 30 seconds on the default settings as it scrolls fairly slow.

It doesn't adjust instantly as the wallpaper has no knowledge about any device change. As far as the wallpaper goes it just thinks its a softer bit of audio.

Thank you for the reply. I was talking about the fluctuation peak when I said 50% and 20%. I didn't enable normalization since I realized that enabling it would case whatever sound to have a maximum peak at the very beginning and that's ugly but later I got used to it Lol.
Thank you again for the reply. I am having more issues but still looking for the possible cause and testing to ensure the causes of issues so will post it later.

Haven't worked on this wallpaper in long while and noticed the layout of the settings are a bit messy. I'll fix that before I head off for a week .. So might not reply to any new things for a short while.

Looks like I'd better talk about my most important issue before you gone. The issue often appears after I pause/stop the music playing for a while.
I stopwatched the process roughly: It often took 38 - 40 (should be related to the Display History Multiplier I set at 40) secs from all the sound waves to go from right to left and disappear totally from the screen. There'll be no sound wave and no other visualization at all during another 37 - 39 secs. After that, I saw a line appeared at the mid-position of the screen and widening itself fast and it took it about 15 secs to cover the whole screen. There should be no line when no music is played since I set stereo spacing to 0.
This issue should be somewhat related to normalization but I don't know the trigger why there is still sound detected when I stop/pause the music.
Environment: Windows 10 x64 most recent version; Foobar2000

Thank you for your time reading and replying to me. Feel free to ask me for any help... if you think I could.

I did check but not respond before I left. You seem to have run into 2 things. One is certainly an issue, the other is just ugly but works as originally intended.

First it seems that the silence threshold is too sensative and it can result in pretty much silence being scaled to screensize. This is why it filled up the screen. For some reason there was still some audio picked up. Unsure if this a mistake in the code or not, but I have seen similar results which are beyond my control which is why I tend to implement a threshold to ignore any silence noise that some software can create.

The other is that pausing causes a empty line to show up after unpausing which is related to the audio history for that period being empty while the screen/visuals catch up to the current time instead of skipping forward.

I will have to look into both but they are probably nothing big.

Thank you for the response. I tested several more times later and the issue that the line widened and occupied the whole screen could be trigger pretty easily on my laptop.
Once again feel free to ask me for any help I could make during your fixing the issue.
Thank you for your time. The theme you created are pretty amazing after all.

NP. I plan to look into it and hope to update this weekend. I'll leave a message here for you if you want to check it out. It's not my most popular wallpaper ( actually one of my least liked when it comes to rating ) and as such never god much input or updates. Suprised myself that these things are still in it and nobody ever commented on them.

Update published. Might take a few before your copy updates.

Changes:
- Normalization shouldn't go overboard anymore and fill the screen.
- Pausing now inserts silence in the data. the reason a line was shown was because it was linking the last data before the pause with the first after the pause and as a result causing a "bar" between those because there was no silence recorded as it was paused.
- wallpaper should skip forward instantly instead of fast forward thru the data after unpausing.

Check it out and see if its any better.

All ISSUES were solved! Thank you the mighty developer.
Was too busy to check the comments. But finally got my time to reply.

I checked yout other Wallpapers and only to find out this one is still my favorite, above all else from you and also other creators. Good job for creating this masterpiece.

Great! If you notice more bugs, let me know ...