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.
-
-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:
+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 or tag 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.html for details of recent changes to DisOrder and README.upgrades
+for upgrade instructions.
+
+Platform support:
+ Linux Well tested on Debian
+ Mac OS X Disobedience well tested, server somewhat tested; use fink
+ FreeBSD Scantily tested; use ports for dependencies
+It could probably be ported to some other UNIX variants without too much
+effort.
Build dependencies:
Name Tested Notes
- libdb 4.3.29 4.2 and earlier won't work
+ libdb 4.3.29 not 4.2.x; 4.4+ might work.
libgc 6.8
libvorbisfile 1.1.2
libpcre 6.7 need UTF-8 support
libFLAC 1.1.2
GNU C 4.1.2
GNU Make 3.81
+ GNU Sed 4.1.5
Python 2.4.4 (optional)
GTK+ 2.8.20 (if you want the GTK+ client)
GLIB 2.12.4 (if you want the GTK+ client)
"Tested" means I've built against that version; earlier or later versions will
often work too.
-Runtime dependencies:
- * Web server:
- + Apache 1.3.x works for me, but anything that supports CGI and
- authentication should be suitable.
- * Separate player programs are no longer required (but may still be used)
-
-Development dependencies (only developers will need these):
- Automake 1.10 AM_PATH_PYTHON not good enough in 1.7
- Autoconf 2.61
- Libtool 1.5.22 1.4 not good enough
- Bazaar (bzr)
+For the web interface to work you will additionally need a web server. I've
+had both Apache 1.3.x and 2.x working. Anything that supports CGI should be
+OK.
-On Debian you might ensure you have the required packages as follows:
- apt-get install gcc libc-dev automake autoconf libtool libgtk2.0-dev \
- libgc-dev libgcrypt-dev libpcre3-dev libvorbis-dev \
- libao-dev libmad0-dev libasound2-dev libdb4.3-dev \
- libflac-dev
+Bug tracker, etc:
+ http://code.google.com/p/disorder/
Mailing lists:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/sgo-software-discuss
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/sgo-software-announce
- announcements of new versions of DisOrder
+Developers should read README.developers.
+
Installation
============
"This place'd be a paradise tomorrow, if every department had a supervisor
with a machine-gun"
-NOTE: If you are upgrading from an earlier version, see README.upgrades.
+IMPORTANT: If you are upgrading from an earlier version, see README.upgrades.
+
+Debian/Ubuntu: steps 1 to 6 are dealt with automatically if you use the .deb
+files.
+
+OX X/FreeBSD/other Linux: after installation (step 1 and 2), running
+'sudo bash scripts/setup' will cover steps 3 to 6. If it doesn't work on your
+platform, please get in touch.
1. Build the software. Do something like this:
- ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
- make
+ ./configure
+ make # on FreeBSD use gmake
- See INSTALL for more details about driving configure. The precise set of
- options you pass to configure is up to you, if you like configuration being
- in /usr/local/etc or wherever then that should work.
+ See INSTALL or ./configure --help for more details about driving configure.
If you only want to build a subset of DisOrder, specify one or more of the
following options:
--without-gtk Don't build GTK+ client (Disobedience)
--without-python Don't build Python support
+ If configure cannot guess where your web server keeps its HTML documents and
+ CGI programs, you may have to tell it, for instance:
+
+ ./configure cgidir=/whatever/cgi-bin httpdir=/whatever/htdocs
+
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.
+ To build .debs on Debian/Ubuntu, use:
+ fakeroot debian/rules binary
2. Install it. Most of the installation is done via the install target:
make installdirs install
- The CGI interface has to be installed separately:
-
- install -m 755 clients/disorder.cgi /usr/local/lib/cgi-bin/disorder
+ NB steps 3 to 6 are covered by scripts/setup. It should work on FreeBSD, OS
+ X and Linux and could be adapted to other platforms.
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.
specifically for DisOrder.
4. Create /etc/disorder/config. Start from examples/config.sample and adapt it
- to your own requirements. In particular, you should:
- * add 'player' commands for any file formats not supported natively
+ to your own requirements. The things you MUST do are:
* 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
error here can be painful (see BUGS).
+ Optionally you may also want to do the following:
+ * add 'player' and 'tracklength' commands for any file formats not
+ supported natively
* edit the 'scratch' commands to supply scratch sounds (or delete them if
you don't want any).
- * edit the 'trust' command to reflect the user the web interface will
- eventually run as.
- * edit the 'url' command to give the URL of the web interface.
- * add or remove 'stopword' entries as necessary (these words won't take
- part in track name searches from the web interface).
+ * add extra 'stopword' entries as necessary (these words won't take part in
+ track name searches from the web interface).
See disorder_config(5) for more details.
- See README.raw for details on setting up "raw format" players, which allow
- for pausing and gapless play.
+ See README.streams for how to set up network play.
+
+ If adding new 'player' commands, see README.raw for details on setting up
+ "raw format" players. Non-raw players are still supported but not in all
+ configurations and they cannot support pausing and gapless play. If you
+ want additional formats to be supported natively please point the author at
+ a GPL-compatible library that can decode them.
5. Make sure the server is started at boot time.
start up correctly there should be an error message. Correct the problem
and try again.
-7. 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 short while it should start to play something. Try scratching it
+ (as root):
disorder scratch
The track should stop playing, and (if you set any up) a scratch sound play.
-8. 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
+8. Add any other users you want. These easiest way to do this is (still as
+ root):
- (root doesn't need this as the client can read it out of config.private
- when running as root.)
+ disorder authorize USERNAME
- Note that the server must be reloaded (e.g. by 'disorder reconfigure')
- when new users are added.
+ This will automatically choose a random password and create
+ ~USERNAME/.disorder/passwd.
- 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.
+ 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.
- You can use 'disorder authorize' to automatically pick passwords and
- create these files.
+ Alternatively, after setting up the web interface (below), it's possible to
+ allow users to register themselves without operator involvement.
9. Optionally source completion.bash from /etc/profile or similar, for
example:
"Thought I was a gonner baby, but I'm bullet proof"
-These instructions assumes you are using Apache 1.3.x.
-
-You need to configure a number of things to make this work:
-
-1. If you want to have a 'jukebox' virtual host, modify the DNS (or hosts file
- if you are somehow reading this in the 1980s) accordingly and use a fragment
- such as this one:
-
- <VirtualHost HOSTNAME>
- DocumentRoot /home/jukebox/public_html
- ServerName jukebox.DOMAIN
- ServerAlias jukebox
- ServerAdmin webmaster@DOMAIN
- ErrorLog /var/log/apache/jukebox/error.log
- TransferLog /var/log/apache/jukebox/access.log
- Alias /static/ /usr/local/share/disorder/static/
- </VirtualHost>
-
- /static/ should point to the 'static' directory installed by DisOrder. If
- you don't want to use the name 'static' then you can change the url.static
- label in the web interface configuration to your preferred URL; see
- disorder_config(5) for details.
-
- Don't forget to reload Apache after modifying its configuration.
-
- Separate logging is not required but I find it convenient. Up to you.
+Debian/Ubuntu: the .deb files will do the setup here automatically.
-2. disorder.cgi assumes it is subject to access control (and in particular uses
- the username to report who did what). Here's how I configured Apache, given
- the above VirtualHost settings:
+OS X/FreeBSD/other Linux: scripts/setup as referred to above will do the setup
+here automatically.
- <Directory /home/jukebox>
- Require valid-user
- AuthType basic
- AuthName jukebox
- AuthUserFile /home/jukebox/http.users
- </Directory>
-
- Adjust this according to wherever you're going to install disorder.cgi and
- its expected URL.
-
- Don't forget to reload apache after modifying its configuration. If you got
- it wrong, fix it and restart Apache.
-
-3. Create the password file configured above. Something like this:
-
- # htpasswd -b -c /home/jukebox/http.users myusername mypassword
- Adding password for user myusername
- # htpasswd -b /home/jukebox/http.users othername otherpass
- Adding password for user othername
-
-4. The jukebox must be configured to trust the web user. I added the following
- line to my /etc/disorder/config:
+You need to configure a number of things to make this work:
- trust www-data
+1. If you want online registration to work then set mail_sender in
+ /etc/disorder/config to the email address that communications from the web
+ interface will appear to be sent. If this is not a valid, deliverable email
+ address then the results are not likely to be reliable.
- This might not be the same on your system! You have to specify the user
- that the CGI script runs as, whatever that is.
+ mail_sender webmaster@example.com
-5. Install disorder.cgi in an appropriate location. Remember to make it
- executable. With the above configuration I installed it as
- ~jukebox/public_html/index.cgi.
+ By default the web interface sends mail via the system sendmail executable
+ (typically /usr/sbin/sendmail or /usr/lib/sendmail). You can override this
+ with the sendmail directive, for example:
-6. Give www-data (or whatever user it is) a password and edit
- /etc/disorder/config.private accordingly. This file should be mode 640 and
- owned by root:jukebox. The line should look something like this:
+ sendmail /usr/sbin/my-sendmail
- allow www-data MYPASSWORD
+ The executable you choose must support the -bs option. Alternatively you
+ can tell it to connect to an SMTP server via TCP, with the smtp_server
+ directive. For example:
- After editing the config file, you must make the daemon re-read it:
+ smtp_server mail.example.com
- disorder reconfigure
+ Use 'disorder reconfigure' to make sure the server knows these settings.
-7. Teach www-data its password, by putting it in /etc/disorder/config.www-data.
- This file should be mode 640 and owned by root:www-data.
+2. The web interface depends on a 'guest' user existing. You can create this
+ with the following command:
- password MYPASSWORD
+ disorder setup-guest
- (You could also use ~www-data/.disorder/passwd for this but on some systems
- the web server user's home directory is inside the document root, which
- would have rather unfortunate consequences.)
+ If you don't want to allow online registration instead use:
-8. Try it out. You should be asked for a username and password that you
- configured earlier, and be shown details of what is playing and what other
- tracks have been configured for future play.
+ disorder setup-guest --no-online-registration
-9. Some features take time to start working, for instance those involving
- reporting the length of tracks. This is because the server starts up as
- quickly as possible even if the full track data has not yet been gathered;
- the track data is then calculated in the background.
+3. Try it out. You should be able to perform read-only operations straight
+ away, and after visiting the 'Login' page to authenticate, perform other
+ operations like adding a track to the queue.
-10. If you run into problems, always look at the appropriate error log; the
- message you see in your web browser will usually not be sufficient to
- diagnose the problem all by itself.
+4. If you run into problems, always look at the appropriate error log; the
+ message you see in your web browser will usually not be sufficient to
+ diagnose the problem all by itself.
-11. If you have a huge number of top level directories, then you might find
- that the 'Choose' page is unreasonably large. If so add the following line
- to /etc/disorder/options.user:
- label sidebar.choosewhich choosealpha
+5. If you have a huge number of top level directories, then you might find
+ that the 'Choose' page is unreasonably large. If so add the following line
+ to /etc/disorder/options.user:
+ label sidebar.choosewhich choosealpha
- This will make 'Choose' be a link for each letter of the 26-letter Roman
- alphabet; follow the link and you just get the directories which start with
- that letter. The "*" link at the end gives you directories which don't
- start with a letter.
+ This will make 'Choose' be a link for each letter of the 26-letter Roman
+ alphabet; follow the link and you just get the directories which start with
+ that letter. The "*" link at the end gives you directories which don't
+ start with a letter.
- You can copy choosealpha.html to /etc/disorder and edit it to change the
- set of initial choices to anything that can be expressed with regexps. The
- regexps must be URL-encoded UTF-8 PCRE regexps.
+ You can copy choosealpha.html to /etc/disorder and edit it to change the
+ set of initial choices to anything that can be expressed with regexps. The
+ regexps must be URL-encoded UTF-8 PCRE regexps.
+If you want to give DisOrder its own virtual host, see README.vhost.
Copyright
=========
"Nothing but another drug, a licence that you buy and sell"
DisOrder - select and play digital audio files
-Copyright (C) 2003-2007 Richard Kettlewell
+Copyright (C) 2003-2008 Richard Kettlewell
+Portions copyright (C) 2007 Ross Younger
+Portions copyright (C) 2007 Mark Wooding
Portions extracted from MPG321, http://mpg321.sourceforge.net/
Copyright (C) 2001 Joe Drew
Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Robert Leslie
+Portions Copyright (C) 1997-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Binaries may derive extra copyright owners through linkage (binary distributors
are expected to do their own legwork)
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