Also encoding the Transient/Tonal sample "Fugue Premikres notes" I added two further samples:
I performed the same ABX on 3.100.alpha2 but added a comparison with a -V5 and -V5+ encode from the non-Final version of halb27's lame3.99.5y (which still had a -V5+ mode which he had meant to disable).
This is the version I used for the -V5+ sample (UK date & UT/GMT+0 time formatting in Command Prompt DIR command):
08/03/2012 17:36 330,752 lame3995y.exe
and this is the version that disables -V5+ (producing -V5) instead, which I happened to use for the -V5 sample:
16/03/2012 23:52 331,264 lame3995y.exe
For simplicity, I haven't run mp3packer over the -V5+ encode, which came to 139.5kbps versus 113.7kbps for the standard, .
The 2 files encoded by 3.99.5yNotFinal and ABX logs are attached.
For completeness here are the encoder histograms:
for -V5
C:\Users\Ryan\Music\Test signals>lame3995y.exe -V5 "Fugue_Premikres_notes\Fugue
Premikres notes.wav" .\sample09_3.99.5y_V5
LAME 3.99.5y 32bits (http://lame.sf.net)
Using polyphase lowpass filter, transition band: 16538 Hz - 17071 Hz
Encoding Fugue_Premikres_notes\Fugue Premikres notes.wav
to .\sample09_3.99.5y_V5
Encoding as 44.1 kHz j-stereo MPEG-1 Layer III VBR(q=5)
Frame | CPU time/estim | REAL time/estim | play/CPU | ETA
352/352 (100%)| 0:00/ 0:00| 0:00/ 0:00| 16.275x| 0:00
32 [ 0]
40 [ 0]
48 [ 0]
56 [ 0]
64 [ 0]
80 [ 0]
96 [ 80] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%***********
112 [209] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%**********************
128 [ 51] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%**
160 [ 4] %%
192 [ 3] %
224 [ 3] %
256 [ 2] %
320 [ 0]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
kbps LR MS % long switch short %
113.7 69.0 31.0 96.4 2.0 1.6
Writing LAME Tag...done
ReplayGain: +7.7dB
############### deletia #############
and for -V5+
C:\Users\Ryan\Music\Test signals\lame3_99_5y_not_final>lame3995y.exe -V5+ "..\Fu
gue_Premikres_notes\Fugue Premikres notes.wav"
LAME 3.99.5y 32bits (http://lame.sf.net)
Using polyphase lowpass filter, transition band: 16538 Hz - 17071 Hz
Encoding ..\Fugue_Premikres_notes\Fugue Premikres notes.wav
to ..\Fugue_Premikres_notes\Fugue Premikres notes.mp3
Encoding as 44.1 kHz j-stereo MPEG-1 Layer III VBR(q=5)
Frame | CPU time/estim | REAL time/estim | play/CPU | ETA
352/352 (100%)| 0:00/ 0:00| 0:00/ 0:00| 16.132x| 0:00
32 [ 0]
40 [ 0]
48 [ 0]
56 [ 0]
64 [ 0]
80 [ 0]
96 [ 0]
112 [ 13] %%%*
128 [283] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%**********************
160 [ 28] %%%%%**
192 [ 11] %%%
224 [ 3] %
256 [ 5] %*
320 [ 9] %%*
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
kbps LR MS % long switch short %
139.5 69.0 31.0 96.4 2.0 1.6
Writing LAME Tag...done
ReplayGain: +7.7dB