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460b9539 1DisOrder
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4DisOrder is a multi-user software jukebox.
5 * It can play either selected tracks or pick tracks at random.
6 * It supports OGG, MP3, FLAC and WAV files, and can be configured to support
7 anything you can supply a player for (up to a point).
8 * It supports both ALSA and OSS and can also broadcast an RTP stream over a
9 LAN; a player for the latter is included.
10 * Tracks may be selected either via a hierarchical interface or by a fast
11 word search.
12 * It has a web interface (allowing access from graphical web browsers) and a
13 GTK+ interface that runs on Linux and Mac systems.
14 * Playing tracks can be paused or cancelled ("scratched").
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16See CHANGES for details of recent changes to DisOrder.
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18The server supports Linux and can be made to work on a Mac (see README.mac).
19The clients work on both Linux and the Mac. It could probably be ported to
20some other UNIX variants without too much effort. Things you will need:
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22Build dependencies:
23 Name Tested Notes
1a0d3568 24 libdb 4.3.29 4.2 and earlier won't work
25 libgc 6.8
26 libvorbisfile 1.1.2
27 libpcre 6.7 need UTF-8 support
460b9539 28 libmad 0.15.1b
1a0d3568 29 libgcrypt 1.2.3
460b9539 30 libao 0.8.6
1a0d3568 31 libasound 1.0.13
32 libFLAC 1.1.2
33 GNU C 4.1.2
34 GNU Make 3.81
ddf922de 35 GNU Sed 4.1.5
1a0d3568 36 Python 2.4.4 (optional)
37 GTK+ 2.8.20 (if you want the GTK+ client)
38 GLIB 2.12.4 (if you want the GTK+ client)
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40"Tested" means I've built against that version; earlier or later versions will
41often work too.
42
43Runtime dependencies:
460b9539 44 * Web server:
45 + Apache 1.3.x works for me, but anything that supports CGI and
46 authentication should be suitable.
1a0d3568 47 * Separate player programs are no longer required (but may still be used)
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49Development dependencies (only developers will need these):
1a0d3568 50 Automake 1.10 AM_PATH_PYTHON not good enough in 1.7
51 Autoconf 2.61
52 Libtool 1.5.22 1.4 not good enough
39068fb4 53 Bazaar (bzr)
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e9194ec6 55On Debian you might ensure you have the required packages as follows:
56 apt-get install gcc libc-dev automake autoconf libtool libgtk2.0-dev \
57 libgc-dev libgcrypt-dev libpcre3-dev libvorbis-dev \
1a0d3568 58 libao-dev libmad0-dev libasound2-dev libdb4.3-dev \
59 libflac-dev
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460b9539 61Mailing lists:
62 http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/sgo-software-discuss
63 - discussion of DisOrder (and other software), bug reports, etc
64 http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/sgo-software-announce
65 - announcements of new versions of DisOrder
66
67
68Installation
69============
70
71 "This place'd be a paradise tomorrow, if every department had a supervisor
72 with a machine-gun"
73
74NOTE: If you are upgrading from an earlier version, see README.upgrades.
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76On a Debian system, if you install from .deb files then you should be able to
77skip steps 1 to 6 and configure it via debconf. This is strongly recommended!
78
460b9539 791. Build the software. Do something like this:
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81 ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
82 make
83
84 See INSTALL for more details about driving configure. The precise set of
85 options you pass to configure is up to you, if you like configuration being
86 in /usr/local/etc or wherever then that should work.
87
88 If you only want to build a subset of DisOrder, specify one or more of the
89 following options:
90 --without-server Don't build server or web interface
91 --without-gtk Don't build GTK+ client (Disobedience)
92 --without-python Don't build Python support
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94 See README.client for setting up a standalone client (or read the
95 disobedience man page).
96
460b9539 972. Install it. Most of the installation is done via the install target:
98
99 make installdirs install
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101 The CGI interface has to be installed separately; see under 'Web Interface'
102 below.
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460b9539 1043. Create a 'jukebox' user and group, with the jukebox group being the default
105 group of the jukebox user. The server will run as this user and group.
106 Check that this user can read your music files and write to the audio
107 device, e.g. by playing a track. The exact name doesn't matter, it could be
108 'jukebox' or 'disorder' or 'fred' or whatever.
109
110 Do not use a general-purpose user or group, you must create ones
111 specifically for DisOrder.
112
1134. Create /etc/disorder/config. Start from examples/config.sample and adapt it
be2d9f37 114 to your own requirements. The things you MUST do are:
460b9539 115 * edit the 'collection' command to identify the location(s) of your own
116 digital audio files. These commands also specify the encoding of
117 filenames, which you should be sure to get right as recovery from an
118 error here can be painful (see BUGS).
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119 Optionally you may also want to do the following:
120 * add 'player' commands for any file formats not supported natively
460b9539 121 * edit the 'scratch' commands to supply scratch sounds (or delete them if
122 you don't want any).
460b9539 123 * add or remove 'stopword' entries as necessary (these words won't take
124 part in track name searches from the web interface).
125
126 See disorder_config(5) for more details.
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128 See README.streams for how to set up network play.
129
130 If adding new 'player' commands, see README.raw for details on setting up
131 "raw format" players. Non-raw players are still supported but not in all
132 configurations and they cannot support pausing and gapless play.
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36be7e6a 1345. Make sure the server is started at boot time.
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136 On many Linux systems, examples/disorder.init should be more or less
137 suitable; install it in /etc/init.d, adapting it as necessary, and make
138 appropriate links from /etc/rc[0-6].d.
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36be7e6a 1406. Start the server.
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142 On Linux systems with sysv-style init:
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144 /etc/init.d/disorder start
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146 By default disorderd logs to daemon.*; check your syslog.conf to see where
147 this ends up and look for log messages from disorderd there. If it didn't
148 start up correctly there should be an error message. Correct the problem
149 and try again.
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1517. After a minute it should start to play something. Try scratching it (as
152 root):
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154 disorder scratch
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156 The track should stop playing, and (if you set any up) a scratch sound play.
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1588. Add any other users you want. These easiest way to do this is (still as
159 root):
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8ae47ac8 161 disorder authorize USERNAME
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163 This will automatically choose a random password and create
164 /etc/disorder/config.USERNAME.
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166 Those users should now be able to access the server from the same host as it
167 runs on, either via the disorder command or Disobedience. To run
168 Disobedience from some other host, File->Login allows hostnames, passwords
169 etc to be configured.
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1719. Optionally source completion.bash from /etc/profile or similar, for
172 example:
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36be7e6a 174 . /usr/local/share/disorder/completion.bash
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36be7e6a 176 This provides completion over disorder command and option names.
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178
179Web Interface
180=============
181
182 "Thought I was a gonner baby, but I'm bullet proof"
183
184These instructions assumes you are using Apache 1.3.x.
185
186You need to configure a number of things to make this work:
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1881. If you want to have a 'jukebox' virtual host, modify the DNS accordingly and
189 use a fragment such as this one:
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191 <VirtualHost HOSTNAME>
192 DocumentRoot /home/jukebox/public_html
193 ServerName jukebox.DOMAIN
194 ServerAlias jukebox
195 ServerAdmin webmaster@DOMAIN
196 ErrorLog /var/log/apache/jukebox/error.log
197 TransferLog /var/log/apache/jukebox/access.log
198 Alias /static/ /usr/local/share/disorder/static/
199 </VirtualHost>
200
201 /static/ should point to the 'static' directory installed by DisOrder. If
202 you don't want to use the name 'static' then you can change the url.static
203 label in the web interface configuration to your preferred URL; see
204 disorder_config(5) for details.
205
206 Don't forget to reload Apache after modifying its configuration.
207
208 Separate logging is not required but I find it convenient. Up to you.
209
d84bf422 2102. The web interface depends on a 'guest' user existing. You can create this
211 with the following command:
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d84bf422 213 disorder setup-guest
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d84bf422 215 If you don't want to allow online registration instead use:
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d84bf422 217 disorder -- setup-guest --no-online-registration
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d84bf422 2193. Install disorder.cgi in an appropriate location. Remember to make it
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220 executable. For example:
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222 install -m 755 clients/disorder.cgi ~jukebox/public_html/index.cgi
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b64c2805 2244. Try it out. You should be able to perform read-only operations straight
d84bf422 225 away, and after visiting the 'Login' page to authenticate, perform other
226 operations like adding a track to the queue.
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b64c2805 2285. If you run into problems, always look at the appropriate error log; the
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229 message you see in your web browser will usually not be sufficient to
230 diagnose the problem all by itself.
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b64c2805 2326. If you have a huge number of top level directories, then you might find
460b9539 233 that the 'Choose' page is unreasonably large. If so add the following line
234 to /etc/disorder/options.user:
235 label sidebar.choosewhich choosealpha
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237 This will make 'Choose' be a link for each letter of the 26-letter Roman
238 alphabet; follow the link and you just get the directories which start with
239 that letter. The "*" link at the end gives you directories which don't
240 start with a letter.
241
242 You can copy choosealpha.html to /etc/disorder and edit it to change the
243 set of initial choices to anything that can be expressed with regexps. The
244 regexps must be URL-encoded UTF-8 PCRE regexps.
245
246
247Copyright
248=========
249
250 "Nothing but another drug, a licence that you buy and sell"
251
252DisOrder - select and play digital audio files
eb525fcd 253Copyright (C) 2003-2007 Richard Kettlewell
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254Portions copyright (C) 2007 Ross Younger
255Portions copyright (C) 2007 Mark Wooding
460b9539 256Portions extracted from MPG321, http://mpg321.sourceforge.net/
257 Copyright (C) 2001 Joe Drew
258 Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Robert Leslie
259Binaries may derive extra copyright owners through linkage (binary distributors
260are expected to do their own legwork)
261
262This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
263the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
264Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
265version.
266
267This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
268WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
269PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
270
271You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
272this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple
273Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
274
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