MCS - Mixdown Comparison Software

MCS is a tool to help musicians compare different mixdowns of a recording.

After adding an audio track to MCS, the track is automatically normalized:
The loudness level is adjusted and the start point of the actual recording is determined. By using the integrated playback functionality, these normalizations enable objective comparison of two or more audio tracks.
In addition, tracks are visualized as waveforms to aid visual comparison and ease jumping to a specific section of an audio track.

A more detailed description of features can be found in our manual: https://github.com/flpa/mcs/wiki

System requirements

• Windows, OSX or Linux operating system
• An installation of Java SE 8 Update 60 or newer

Starting the application

MCS releases contain executable files for Microsoft Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.
You'll find the latest relase at https://github.com/flpa/mcs/releases .
After unpacking the release, the executable files are located in the bin directory.

Windows

MCS can be started using the executable batch file mcs.bat by double-clicking the file in Windows Explorer. Alternatively, it can be launched from a command-prompt.

Mac

MCS can be started from the commandline using the executable shell script mcs.
For more convenience, our release page also contains standard OSX DMG files, e.g. mcs-v0.5.0.dmg. These can be integrated into the system easily.

Linux

MCS can be started from the commandline using the executable shell script mcs.

Bugs and questions

Bugs and questions are collected as issues in our Github repository at https://github.com/flpa/mcs/issues/ . Feel free to create new issues for any problems or questions you encounter while using MCS.

You'll also find a list of known bugs at https://github.com/flpa/mcs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Abug .

Development

Do you want to contribute? Or maybe you just want to browse the source code in the Eclipse Java IDE?
Here's what you'll need:

• Git
• Gradle
• Eclipse
• Java 8

Thanks to Gradle, setting up the development environment is easy:

• Clone the git repository that you'll find on the project page https://github.com/flpa/mcs.
• Run the command gradle eclipse on the commandline. This generates an Eclipse project file.
• Import the generated project into Eclipse.
• That's it! To start the application, run the main class at.fhtw.mcs.Main.

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Florian Patzl, Joshua Hercher, Ralf Rosskopf
published under the MIT license

This product uses the following software from other open source projects:

• Apache Commons IO 2.4, Copyright (c) The Apache Software Foundation
  license: The Apache Software License, Version 2.0
• JLayer 1.0.1, Copyright (c) JavaZOOM
  license: GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 2.1
  sources: http://www.javazoom.net/javalayer/sources/jlayer1.0.1.zip
• jsoup, Copyright (c) Jonathan Hedley license: The MIT License sources: http://jsoup.org/download
• controlsfx 8.40.10, Copyright (c) Jasper Potts, Richard Bair & Jonathan Giles license: other sources: https://bitbucket.org/controlsfx/controlsfx/downloads

Copies of all licenses can be found in this file's directory.
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