DisOrder
========
-This program is used to play random and chosen tracks from a collection of
-digital audio files (for instance MP3 and OGG files). If you just set it going
-it plays random tracks from your collection, but you can also ask for specific
-tracks to be played, either via a command line program or a web interface, and
-you can 'scratch' the current track.
+DisOrder is a multi-user software jukebox.
+ * It can play either selected tracks or pick tracks at random.
+ * It supports OGG, MP3, FLAC and WAV files, and can be configured to support
+ anything you can supply a player for (up to a point).
+ * It supports both ALSA and OSS and can also broadcast an RTP stream over a
+ LAN; a player for the latter is included.
+ * Tracks may be selected either via a hierarchical interface or by a fast
+ word search.
+ * It has a web interface (allowing access from graphical web browsers) and a
+ GTK+ interface that runs on Linux and Mac systems.
+ * Playing tracks can be paused or cancelled ("scratched").
See CHANGES for details of recent changes to DisOrder.
-Currently it only runs on Linux. It could probably be ported to other UNIX
-variants in some cases without too much effort. Things you will need:
+The server supports Linux and can be made to on a Mac. The clients work on
+both Linux and the Mac. It could probably be ported to some other UNIX
+variants in without too much effort. Things you will need:
Build dependencies:
Name Tested Notes
--without-gtk Don't build GTK+ client (Disobedience)
--without-python Don't build Python support
- See README.client for setting up a standalone client.
+ See README.client for setting up a standalone client (or read the
+ disobedience man page).
+
+ The server is only built by default under Linux. See README.mac concerning
+ its use under OS X.
2. Install it. Most of the installation is done via the install target:
make installdirs install
- The CGI interface has to be installed separately, and you must use Libtool
- to install it. For instance:
-
- ./libtool --mode=install install -m 755 progs/disorder.cgi /usr/local/lib/cgi-bin/disorder
-
- Depending on how your system is configured you may need to link the disorder
- libao driver into the right directory:
+ The CGI interface has to be installed separately:
- ln -s /usr/local/lib/ao/plugins-2/libdisorder.so /usr/lib/ao/plugins-2/.
+ install -m 755 clients/disorder.cgi /usr/local/lib/cgi-bin/disorder
3. Create a 'jukebox' user and group, with the jukebox group being the default
group of the jukebox user. The server will run as this user and group.
4. Create /etc/disorder/config. Start from examples/config.sample and adapt it
to your own requirements. In particular, you should:
- * edit the 'player' commands to reflect the software you have installed.
+ * add 'player' commands for any file formats not supported natively
* edit the 'collection' command to identify the location(s) of your own
digital audio files. These commands also specify the encoding of
filenames, which you should be sure to get right as recovery from an
See README.raw for details on setting up "raw format" players, which allow
for pausing and gapless play.
-5. Create /etc/disorder/config.private. This should be readable only by the
- jukebox group:
-
- touch /etc/disorder/config.private
- chown root:jukebox /etc/disorder/config.private
- chmod 640 /etc/disorder/config.private
-
- Set up a username and password for root, for example with line like this:
-
- allow root somepassword
-
- Use (for instance) pwgen(1) to create the password. DO NOT use your root
- password - this is a password to give root access to the server, not to give
- access to the root login.
-
- See disorderd(8) and disorder_config(5) for more details.
-
-6. Make sure the server is started at boot time.
+5. Make sure the server is started at boot time.
On many Linux systems, examples/disorder.init should be more or less
suitable; install it in /etc/init.d, adapting it as necessary, and make
appropriate links from /etc/rc[0-6].d.
- For Mac OS X 10.4, a suitable plist file is automatically installed. The
- command:
-
- sudo launchctl list
-
- ...should show "uk.org.greenend.rjk.disorder" (among other things).
-
- If you have a some other init system then you are on your own.
-
-7. Make sure the state directory (/var/disorder or /usr/local/var/disorder or
- as determined by configure) exists and is writable by the jukebox user.
-
- mkdir -m 755 /var/disorder
- chown disorder:root /var/disorder
-
- If you want to use some other directory you must put use the 'home' command
- in the configuration file.
-
-8. Start the server.
+6. Start the server.
On Linux systems with sysv-style init:
/etc/init.d/disorder start
- On Mac OS X 10.4:
-
- sudo launchctl start uk.org.greenend.rjk.disorder
-
By default disorderd logs to daemon.*; check your syslog.conf to see where
this ends up and look for log messages from disorderd there. If it didn't
start up correctly there should be an error message. Correct the problem
and try again.
-9. After a minute it should start to play something. Try scratching it, as any
- of the users you set up in step 5:
+7. After a minute it should start to play something. Try scratching it:
disorder scratch
The track should stop playing, and (if you set any up) a scratch sound play.
-10. Add any other users you want to config.private. Each user's password
- should be stored in a file in their home directory, ~/.disorder/passwd,
- which should be readable only by them, and should take the form of a single
- line:
-
- password MYPASSWORD
-
- (root doesn't need this as the client can read it out of config.private
- when running as root.)
+8. Add any other users you want. These easiest way to do this is:
- Note that the server must be reloaded (e.g. by 'disorder reconfigure')
- when new users are added.
+ disorder authorize USERNAME
- Alternatively the administrator can create /etc/disorder/config.USERNAME
- containing the same thing as above. It can either be owned by the user and
- mode 400, or owned by root and the user's group (if you have per-user
- groups) and mode 440.
+ This will automatically choose a random password and add new line to
+ /etc/disorder/config.private and create /etc/disorder/config.USERNAME.
- You can use 'disorder authorize' to automatically pick passwords and
- create these files.
+ Those users should now be able to access the server from the same host as it
+ runs on, either via the disorder command or Disobedience. To run
+ Disobedience from some other host, File->Login allows hostnames, passwords
+ etc to be configured.
-11. Optionally source completion.bash from /etc/profile or similar, for
- example:
+9. Optionally source completion.bash from /etc/profile or similar, for
+ example:
- . /usr/local/share/disorder/completion.bash
+ . /usr/local/share/disorder/completion.bash
- This provides completion over disorder command and option names.
+ This provides completion over disorder command and option names.
Web Interface
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