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1DisOrder
2========
3
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 or tag 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").
15
16See CHANGES.html for details of recent changes to DisOrder and
17README.upgrades.html for upgrade instructions.
18
19Platform support:
20 Linux Well tested on Debian
21 Mac OS X Disobedience well tested, server somewhat tested; use fink
22 FreeBSD Scantily tested; use ports for dependencies
23It could probably be ported to some other UNIX variants without too much
24effort.
25
26Build dependencies:
27 Name Tested Notes
28 libdb 4.5.20 not 4.6; 4.[78] seem to be ok
29 libgc 6.8
30 libvorbisfile 1.2.0
31 libpcre 7.6 need UTF-8 support
32 libmad 0.15.1b
33 libgcrypt 1.4.1
34 libao 0.8.8 1.0.0 is broken
35 libasound 1.0.16
36 libFLAC 1.2.1
37 libsamplerate 0.1.4 currently optional
38 GNU C 4.2.1 }
39 GNU Make 3.81 } Non-GNU versions will NOT work
40 GNU Sed 4.1.5 }
41 Python 2.5.2 (optional; 2.4 won't work)
42 GTK+ 2.12.12 (for the GTK+ client; 2.10 & older will NOT work)
43 GLIB 2.16.6 (for the GTK+ client)
44
45"Tested" means I've built against that version; earlier or later versions will
46often work too.
47
48For the web interface to work you will additionally need a web server. I've
49had both Apache 1.3.x and 2.x working. Anything that supports CGI should be
50OK.
51
52Bug tracker, etc:
53 http://code.google.com/p/disorder/
54
55Mailing lists:
56 http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/sgo-software-discuss
57 - discussion of DisOrder (and other software), bug reports, etc
58 http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/sgo-software-announce
59 - announcements of new versions of DisOrder
60
61Developers should read README.developers.
62
63
64Installation
65============
66
67 "This place'd be a paradise tomorrow, if every department had a supervisor
68 with a machine-gun"
69
70IMPORTANT: If you are upgrading from an earlier version, see
71README.upgrades.html.
72
73Debian/Ubuntu: steps 1 to 6 are dealt with automatically if you use the .deb
74files.
75
76OX X/FreeBSD/other Linux: after installation (step 1 and 2), running
77'sudo bash scripts/setup' will cover steps 3 to 6. If it doesn't work on your
78platform, please get in touch.
79
801. Build the software. Do something like this:
81
82 ./configure
83 make # on FreeBSD use gmake
84
85 See INSTALL or ./configure --help for more details about driving configure.
86
87 If you only want to build a subset of DisOrder, specify one or more of the
88 following options:
89 --without-server Don't build server or web interface
90 --without-gtk Don't build GTK+ client (Disobedience)
91 --without-python Don't build Python support
92
93 If configure cannot guess where your web server keeps its HTML documents and
94 CGI programs, you may have to tell it, for instance:
95
96 ./configure cgiexecdir=/whatever/cgi-bin httpdir=/whatever/htdocs
97
98 See README.client for setting up a standalone client (or read the
99 disobedience man page).
100
101 To build .debs on Debian/Ubuntu, use:
102 fakeroot debian/rules binary
103
1042. Install it. Most of the installation is done via the install target:
105
106 make installdirs install
107
108 NB steps 3 to 6 are covered by scripts/setup. It should work on FreeBSD, OS
109 X and Linux and could be adapted to other platforms.
110
1113. Create a 'jukebox' user and group, with the jukebox group being the default
112 group of the jukebox user. The server will run as this user and group.
113 Check that this user can read your music files and write to the audio
114 device, e.g. by playing a track. The exact name doesn't matter, it could be
115 'jukebox' or 'disorder' or 'fred' or whatever.
116
117 Do not use a general-purpose user or group, you must create ones
118 specifically for DisOrder.
119
1204. Create /etc/disorder/config. Start from examples/config.sample and adapt it
121 to your own requirements. The things you MUST do are:
122 * edit the 'collection' command to identify the location(s) of your own
123 digital audio files. These commands also specify the encoding of
124 filenames, which you should be sure to get right as recovery from an
125 error here can be painful (see BUGS).
126 Optionally you may also want to do the following:
127 * add 'player' and 'tracklength' commands for any file formats not
128 supported natively
129 * edit the 'scratch' commands to supply scratch sounds (or delete them if
130 you don't want any).
131 * add extra 'stopword' entries as necessary (these words won't take part in
132 track name searches from the web interface).
133
134 See disorder_config(5) for more details.
135
136 See README.streams for how to set up network play.
137
138 If adding new 'player' commands, see README.raw for details on setting up
139 "raw format" players. Non-raw players are still supported but not in all
140 configurations and they cannot support pausing and gapless play. If you
141 want additional formats to be supported natively please point the author at
142 a GPL-compatible library that can decode them.
143
1445. Make sure the server is started at boot time.
145
146 On many Linux systems, examples/disorder.init should be more or less
147 suitable; install it in /etc/init.d, adapting it as necessary, and make
148 appropriate links from /etc/rc[0-6].d.
149
1506. Start the server.
151
152 On Linux systems with sysv-style init:
153
154 /etc/init.d/disorder start
155
156 By default disorderd logs to daemon.*; check your syslog.conf to see where
157 this ends up and look for log messages from disorderd there. If it didn't
158 start up correctly there should be an error message. Correct the problem
159 and try again.
160
1617. After a short while it should start to play something. Try scratching it
162 (as root):
163
164 disorder scratch
165
166 The track should stop playing, and (if you set any up) a scratch sound play.
167
1688. Add any other users you want. These easiest way to do this is (still as
169 root):
170
171 disorder authorize USERNAME
172
173 This will automatically choose a random password and create
174 ~USERNAME/.disorder/passwd.
175
176 Those users should now be able to access the server from the same host as it
177 runs on, either via the disorder command or Disobedience. To run
178 Disobedience from some other host, File->Login allows hostnames, passwords
179 etc to be configured.
180
181 Alternatively, after setting up the web interface (below), it's possible to
182 allow users to register themselves without operator involvement.
183
1849. Optionally source completion.bash from /etc/profile or similar, for
185 example:
186
187 . /usr/local/share/disorder/completion.bash
188
189 This provides completion over disorder command and option names.
190
191
192Web Interface
193=============
194
195 "Thought I was a gonner baby, but I'm bullet proof"
196
197Debian/Ubuntu: the .deb files will do the setup here automatically.
198
199OS X/FreeBSD/other Linux: scripts/setup as referred to above will do the setup
200here automatically.
201
202You need to configure a number of things to make this work:
203
2041. If you want online registration to work then set mail_sender in
205 /etc/disorder/config to the email address that communications from the web
206 interface will appear to be sent. If this is not a valid, deliverable email
207 address then the results are not likely to be reliable.
208
209 mail_sender webmaster@example.com
210
211 By default the web interface sends mail via the system sendmail executable
212 (typically /usr/sbin/sendmail or /usr/lib/sendmail). You can override this
213 with the sendmail directive, for example:
214
215 sendmail /usr/sbin/my-sendmail
216
217 The executable you choose must support the -bs option. Alternatively you
218 can tell it to connect to an SMTP server via TCP, with the smtp_server
219 directive. For example:
220
221 smtp_server mail.example.com
222
223 Use 'disorder reconfigure' to make sure the server knows these settings.
224
2252. The web interface depends on a 'guest' user existing. You can create this
226 with the following command:
227
228 disorder setup-guest
229
230 If you don't want to allow online registration instead use:
231
232 disorder setup-guest --no-online-registration
233
2343. Try it out. The url will be (something like):
235
236 http://localhost/cgi-bin/disorder
237
238 You should be able to perform read-only operations straight away, and after
239 visiting the 'Login' page to authenticate, perform other operations like
240 adding a track to the queue.
241
2424. If you run into problems, always look at the appropriate error log; the
243 message you see in your web browser will usually not be sufficient to
244 diagnose the problem all by itself.
245
2465. If you have a huge number of top level directories, then you might find
247 that the 'Choose' page is unreasonably large. If so add the following line
248 to /etc/disorder/options.user:
249 label sidebar.choosewhich choosealpha
250
251 This will make 'Choose' be a link for each letter of the 26-letter Roman
252 alphabet; follow the link and you just get the directories which start with
253 that letter. The "*" link at the end gives you directories which don't
254 start with a letter.
255
256 You can copy choosealpha.html to /etc/disorder and edit it to change the
257 set of initial choices to anything that can be expressed with regexps. The
258 regexps must be URL-encoded UTF-8 PCRE regexps.
259
260If you want to give DisOrder its own virtual host, see README.vhost.
261
262Copyright
263=========
264
265 "Nothing but another drug, a licence that you buy and sell"
266
267DisOrder - select and play digital audio files
268Copyright (C) 2003-2009 Richard Kettlewell
269Portions copyright (C) 2007 Ross Younger
270Portions copyright (C) 2007 Mark Wooding
271Portions extracted from MPG321, http://mpg321.sourceforge.net/
272 Copyright (C) 2001 Joe Drew
273 Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Robert Leslie
274Portions Copyright (C) 1997-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
275Portions Copyright (C) 2000 Red Hat, Inc., Jonathan Blandford <jrb@redhat.com>
276Binaries may derive extra copyright owners through linkage (binary distributors
277are expected to do their own legwork)
278
279This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
280it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
281the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
282(at your option) any later version.
283
284This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
285but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
286MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
287GNU General Public License for more details.
288
289You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
290along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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