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460b9539 1DisOrder
2========
3
4This program is used to play random and chosen tracks from a collection of
5digital audio files (for instance MP3 and OGG files). If you just set it going
6it plays random tracks from your collection, but you can also ask for specific
7tracks to be played, either via a command line program or a web interface, and
8you can 'scratch' the current track.
9
10See CHANGES for details of recent changes to DisOrder.
11
12Currently it only runs on Linux. It could probably be ported to other UNIX
13variants in some cases without too much effort. Things you will need:
14
15Build dependencies:
16 Name Tested Notes
1a0d3568 17 libdb 4.3.29 4.2 and earlier won't work
18 libgc 6.8
19 libvorbisfile 1.1.2
20 libpcre 6.7 need UTF-8 support
460b9539 21 libmad 0.15.1b
1a0d3568 22 libgcrypt 1.2.3
460b9539 23 libao 0.8.6
1a0d3568 24 libasound 1.0.13
25 libFLAC 1.1.2
26 GNU C 4.1.2
27 GNU Make 3.81
28 Python 2.4.4 (optional)
29 GTK+ 2.8.20 (if you want the GTK+ client)
30 GLIB 2.12.4 (if you want the GTK+ client)
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32"Tested" means I've built against that version; earlier or later versions will
33often work too.
34
35Runtime dependencies:
460b9539 36 * Web server:
37 + Apache 1.3.x works for me, but anything that supports CGI and
38 authentication should be suitable.
1a0d3568 39 * Separate player programs are no longer required (but may still be used)
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41Development dependencies (only developers will need these):
1a0d3568 42 Automake 1.10 AM_PATH_PYTHON not good enough in 1.7
43 Autoconf 2.61
44 Libtool 1.5.22 1.4 not good enough
39068fb4 45 Bazaar (bzr)
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e9194ec6 47On Debian you might ensure you have the required packages as follows:
48 apt-get install gcc libc-dev automake autoconf libtool libgtk2.0-dev \
49 libgc-dev libgcrypt-dev libpcre3-dev libvorbis-dev \
1a0d3568 50 libao-dev libmad0-dev libasound2-dev libdb4.3-dev \
51 libflac-dev
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460b9539 53Mailing lists:
54 http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/sgo-software-discuss
55 - discussion of DisOrder (and other software), bug reports, etc
56 http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/sgo-software-announce
57 - announcements of new versions of DisOrder
58
59
60Installation
61============
62
63 "This place'd be a paradise tomorrow, if every department had a supervisor
64 with a machine-gun"
65
66NOTE: If you are upgrading from an earlier version, see README.upgrades.
67
681. Build the software. Do something like this:
69
70 ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
71 make
72
73 See INSTALL for more details about driving configure. The precise set of
74 options you pass to configure is up to you, if you like configuration being
75 in /usr/local/etc or wherever then that should work.
76
77 If you only want to build a subset of DisOrder, specify one or more of the
78 following options:
79 --without-server Don't build server or web interface
80 --without-gtk Don't build GTK+ client (Disobedience)
81 --without-python Don't build Python support
82
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83 See README.client for setting up a standalone client (or read the
84 disobedience man page).
85
86 The server is only built by default under Linux. See README.mac concerning
87 its use under OS X.
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892. Install it. Most of the installation is done via the install target:
90
91 make installdirs install
92
655cae67 93 The CGI interface has to be installed separately:
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655cae67 95 install -m 755 clients/disorder.cgi /usr/local/lib/cgi-bin/disorder
460b9539 96
460b9539 973. Create a 'jukebox' user and group, with the jukebox group being the default
98 group of the jukebox user. The server will run as this user and group.
99 Check that this user can read your music files and write to the audio
100 device, e.g. by playing a track. The exact name doesn't matter, it could be
101 'jukebox' or 'disorder' or 'fred' or whatever.
102
103 Do not use a general-purpose user or group, you must create ones
104 specifically for DisOrder.
105
1064. Create /etc/disorder/config. Start from examples/config.sample and adapt it
107 to your own requirements. In particular, you should:
75db8354 108 * add 'player' commands for any file formats not supported natively
460b9539 109 * edit the 'collection' command to identify the location(s) of your own
110 digital audio files. These commands also specify the encoding of
111 filenames, which you should be sure to get right as recovery from an
112 error here can be painful (see BUGS).
113 * edit the 'scratch' commands to supply scratch sounds (or delete them if
114 you don't want any).
115 * edit the 'trust' command to reflect the user the web interface will
116 eventually run as.
117 * edit the 'url' command to give the URL of the web interface.
118 * add or remove 'stopword' entries as necessary (these words won't take
119 part in track name searches from the web interface).
120
121 See disorder_config(5) for more details.
122
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123 See README.raw for details on setting up "raw format" players, which allow
124 for pausing and gapless play.
125
36be7e6a 1265. Make sure the server is started at boot time.
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128 On many Linux systems, examples/disorder.init should be more or less
129 suitable; install it in /etc/init.d, adapting it as necessary, and make
130 appropriate links from /etc/rc[0-6].d.
131
36be7e6a 1326. Start the server.
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134 On Linux systems with sysv-style init:
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136 /etc/init.d/disorder start
137
138 By default disorderd logs to daemon.*; check your syslog.conf to see where
139 this ends up and look for log messages from disorderd there. If it didn't
140 start up correctly there should be an error message. Correct the problem
141 and try again.
142
36be7e6a 1437. After a minute it should start to play something. Try scratching it, as any
460b9539 144 of the users you set up in step 5:
145
146 disorder scratch
147
148 The track should stop playing, and (if you set any up) a scratch sound play.
149
8ae47ac8 1508. Add any other users you want. These easiest way to do this is:
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8ae47ac8 152 disorder authorize USERNAME
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154 This will automatically choose a random password and add new line to
155 /etc/disorder/config.private and create /etc/disorder/config.USERNAME.
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1579. Optionally source completion.bash from /etc/profile or similar, for
158 example:
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36be7e6a 160 . /usr/local/share/disorder/completion.bash
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36be7e6a 162 This provides completion over disorder command and option names.
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164
165Web Interface
166=============
167
168 "Thought I was a gonner baby, but I'm bullet proof"
169
170These instructions assumes you are using Apache 1.3.x.
171
172You need to configure a number of things to make this work:
173
1741. If you want to have a 'jukebox' virtual host, modify the DNS (or hosts file
175 if you are somehow reading this in the 1980s) accordingly and use a fragment
176 such as this one:
177
178 <VirtualHost HOSTNAME>
179 DocumentRoot /home/jukebox/public_html
180 ServerName jukebox.DOMAIN
181 ServerAlias jukebox
182 ServerAdmin webmaster@DOMAIN
183 ErrorLog /var/log/apache/jukebox/error.log
184 TransferLog /var/log/apache/jukebox/access.log
185 Alias /static/ /usr/local/share/disorder/static/
186 </VirtualHost>
187
188 /static/ should point to the 'static' directory installed by DisOrder. If
189 you don't want to use the name 'static' then you can change the url.static
190 label in the web interface configuration to your preferred URL; see
191 disorder_config(5) for details.
192
193 Don't forget to reload Apache after modifying its configuration.
194
195 Separate logging is not required but I find it convenient. Up to you.
196
1972. disorder.cgi assumes it is subject to access control (and in particular uses
198 the username to report who did what). Here's how I configured Apache, given
199 the above VirtualHost settings:
200
201 <Directory /home/jukebox>
202 Require valid-user
203 AuthType basic
204 AuthName jukebox
205 AuthUserFile /home/jukebox/http.users
206 </Directory>
207
208 Adjust this according to wherever you're going to install disorder.cgi and
209 its expected URL.
210
211 Don't forget to reload apache after modifying its configuration. If you got
212 it wrong, fix it and restart Apache.
213
2143. Create the password file configured above. Something like this:
215
216 # htpasswd -b -c /home/jukebox/http.users myusername mypassword
217 Adding password for user myusername
218 # htpasswd -b /home/jukebox/http.users othername otherpass
219 Adding password for user othername
220
2214. The jukebox must be configured to trust the web user. I added the following
222 line to my /etc/disorder/config:
223
224 trust www-data
225
226 This might not be the same on your system! You have to specify the user
227 that the CGI script runs as, whatever that is.
228
2295. Install disorder.cgi in an appropriate location. Remember to make it
230 executable. With the above configuration I installed it as
231 ~jukebox/public_html/index.cgi.
232
2336. Give www-data (or whatever user it is) a password and edit
234 /etc/disorder/config.private accordingly. This file should be mode 640 and
235 owned by root:jukebox. The line should look something like this:
236
237 allow www-data MYPASSWORD
238
239 After editing the config file, you must make the daemon re-read it:
240
241 disorder reconfigure
242
2437. Teach www-data its password, by putting it in /etc/disorder/config.www-data.
244 This file should be mode 640 and owned by root:www-data.
245
246 password MYPASSWORD
247
248 (You could also use ~www-data/.disorder/passwd for this but on some systems
249 the web server user's home directory is inside the document root, which
250 would have rather unfortunate consequences.)
251
2528. Try it out. You should be asked for a username and password that you
253 configured earlier, and be shown details of what is playing and what other
254 tracks have been configured for future play.
255
2569. Some features take time to start working, for instance those involving
257 reporting the length of tracks. This is because the server starts up as
258 quickly as possible even if the full track data has not yet been gathered;
259 the track data is then calculated in the background.
260
26110. If you run into problems, always look at the appropriate error log; the
262 message you see in your web browser will usually not be sufficient to
263 diagnose the problem all by itself.
264
26511. If you have a huge number of top level directories, then you might find
266 that the 'Choose' page is unreasonably large. If so add the following line
267 to /etc/disorder/options.user:
268 label sidebar.choosewhich choosealpha
269
270 This will make 'Choose' be a link for each letter of the 26-letter Roman
271 alphabet; follow the link and you just get the directories which start with
272 that letter. The "*" link at the end gives you directories which don't
273 start with a letter.
274
275 You can copy choosealpha.html to /etc/disorder and edit it to change the
276 set of initial choices to anything that can be expressed with regexps. The
277 regexps must be URL-encoded UTF-8 PCRE regexps.
278
279
280Copyright
281=========
282
283 "Nothing but another drug, a licence that you buy and sell"
284
285DisOrder - select and play digital audio files
eb525fcd 286Copyright (C) 2003-2007 Richard Kettlewell
460b9539 287Portions extracted from MPG321, http://mpg321.sourceforge.net/
288 Copyright (C) 2001 Joe Drew
289 Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Robert Leslie
290Binaries may derive extra copyright owners through linkage (binary distributors
291are expected to do their own legwork)
292
293This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
294the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
295Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
296version.
297
298This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
299WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
300PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
301
302You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
303this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple
304Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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