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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 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 for details of recent changes to DisOrder.
17
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:
21
22Build dependencies:
23 Name Tested Notes
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
28 libmad 0.15.1b
29 libgcrypt 1.2.3
30 libao 0.8.6
31 libasound 1.0.13
32 libFLAC 1.1.2
33 GNU C 4.1.2
34 GNU Make 3.81
35 GNU Sed 4.1.5
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)
39
40"Tested" means I've built against that version; earlier or later versions will
41often work too.
42
43Runtime dependencies:
44 * Web server:
45 + Apache 1.3.x works for me, but anything that supports CGI and
46 authentication should be suitable.
47 * Separate player programs are no longer required (but may still be used)
48
49Development dependencies (only developers will need these):
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
53 Bazaar (bzr)
54
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 \
58 libao-dev libmad0-dev libasound2-dev libdb4.3-dev \
59 libflac-dev
60
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.
75
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
791. Build the software. Do something like this:
80
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
93
94 See README.client for setting up a standalone client (or read the
95 disobedience man page).
96
972. Install it. Most of the installation is done via the install target:
98
99 make installdirs install
100
101 The CGI interface has to be installed separately; see under 'Web Interface'
102 below.
103
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
114 to your own requirements. The things you MUST do are:
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).
119 Optionally you may also want to do the following:
120 * add 'player' commands for any file formats not supported natively
121 * edit the 'scratch' commands to supply scratch sounds (or delete them if
122 you don't want any).
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.
127
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.
133
1345. Make sure the server is started at boot time.
135
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.
139
1406. Start the server.
141
142 On Linux systems with sysv-style init:
143
144 /etc/init.d/disorder start
145
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.
150
1517. After a minute it should start to play something. Try scratching it (as
152 root):
153
154 disorder scratch
155
156 The track should stop playing, and (if you set any up) a scratch sound play.
157
1588. Add any other users you want. These easiest way to do this is (still as
159 root):
160
161 disorder authorize USERNAME
162
163 This will automatically choose a random password and create
164 /etc/disorder/config.USERNAME.
165
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.
170
1719. Optionally source completion.bash from /etc/profile or similar, for
172 example:
173
174 . /usr/local/share/disorder/completion.bash
175
176 This provides completion over disorder command and option names.
177
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:
187
1881. If you want to have a 'jukebox' virtual host, modify the DNS accordingly and
189 use a fragment such as this one:
190
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
2102. disorder.cgi assumes it is subject to access control (and in particular uses
211 the username to report who did what). Here's how I configured Apache, given
212 the above VirtualHost settings:
213
214 <Directory /home/jukebox>
215 Require valid-user
216 AuthType basic
217 AuthName jukebox
218 AuthUserFile /home/jukebox/http.users
219 </Directory>
220
221 Adjust this according to wherever you're going to install disorder.cgi and
222 its expected URL.
223
224 Don't forget to reload apache after modifying its configuration. If you got
225 it wrong, fix it and restart Apache.
226
2273. Create the password file configured above. Something like this:
228
229 # htpasswd -b -c /home/jukebox/http.users myusername mypassword
230 Adding password for user myusername
231 # htpasswd -b /home/jukebox/http.users othername otherpass
232 Adding password for user othername
233
2344. The jukebox must be configured to trust the web user. The example
235 configuration assumes that this is www-data, but it might be something else
236 on your system. Edit the 'trust' line if necessary.
237
2385. Install disorder.cgi in an appropriate location. Remember to make it
239 executable. For example:
240
241 install -m 755 clients/disorder.cgi ~jukebox/public_html/index.cgi
242
2436. The config file must also allow the web interface to be any user, and it
244 must list the URL of the web interface explicitly:
245
246 trust www-data
247 url http://jukebox.DOMAIN/
248
2497. Give www-data (or whatever user it is) a password and edit
250 /etc/disorder/config.private accordingly. This file should be mode 640 and
251 owned by root:jukebox. The line should look something like this:
252
253 allow www-data MYPASSWORD
254
255 After editing the config file, you must make the daemon re-read it:
256
257 disorder reconfigure
258
2598. Teach www-data its password, by putting it in /etc/disorder/config.www-data.
260 This file should be mode 640 and owned by root:www-data.
261
262 password MYPASSWORD
263
264 (You could also use ~www-data/.disorder/passwd for this but on some systems
265 the web server user's home directory is inside the document root, which
266 would have rather unfortunate consequences!)
267
2689. Try it out. You should be asked for a username and password that you
269 configured earlier, and be shown details of what is playing and what other
270 tracks have been configured for future play.
271
27210. If you run into problems, always look at the appropriate error log; the
273 message you see in your web browser will usually not be sufficient to
274 diagnose the problem all by itself.
275
27611. If you have a huge number of top level directories, then you might find
277 that the 'Choose' page is unreasonably large. If so add the following line
278 to /etc/disorder/options.user:
279 label sidebar.choosewhich choosealpha
280
281 This will make 'Choose' be a link for each letter of the 26-letter Roman
282 alphabet; follow the link and you just get the directories which start with
283 that letter. The "*" link at the end gives you directories which don't
284 start with a letter.
285
286 You can copy choosealpha.html to /etc/disorder and edit it to change the
287 set of initial choices to anything that can be expressed with regexps. The
288 regexps must be URL-encoded UTF-8 PCRE regexps.
289
290
291Copyright
292=========
293
294 "Nothing but another drug, a licence that you buy and sell"
295
296DisOrder - select and play digital audio files
297Copyright (C) 2003-2007 Richard Kettlewell
298Portions copyright (C) 2007 Ross Younger
299Portions copyright (C) 2007 Mark Wooding
300Portions extracted from MPG321, http://mpg321.sourceforge.net/
301 Copyright (C) 2001 Joe Drew
302 Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Robert Leslie
303Binaries may derive extra copyright owners through linkage (binary distributors
304are expected to do their own legwork)
305
306This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
307the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
308Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
309version.
310
311This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
312WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
313PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
314
315You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
316this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple
317Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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