Hi Roel!
> In order to get the (much) higher --nspsytune filesizes down, I used
> "--athlower -21" (or -20->-23) to compensate. [seems to go negative
> :)]
I'm sorry to say, but in my opinion it is a really bad idea to lower the file
size with that --athlower switch, you are tweaking at the wrong place here.
If you want to get both at a comparable size, you would have to play
with these dbQ[] values in quantize.c.
> Seems logical to me to compare quality of vbr files only if they have
> some comparable size.
Sloppy speaking, the idea of Naoki's psy tuning is to increase the filesize
where GPSYCHO currently seems to fail, on tunes like vbrtest.wav.
My observation on a song from the artist formerly known as Prince:
- the old VBR code makes it at an average of 130 kbits with -V4, sounds OK
- turning on Naoki's psy tunings: it grew on 196 kbits, nearly 50% larger!
I haven't spent much time at his tunings, but I fear that it always says
the sound is tonal, even if it's more noise like.
Ciao Robert
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