[VoIP] Continuous music on hold?

[Greg Blakely]

Along those same lines, I have a key system that sits behind my asterisk
pbx.  I'd like to use that 'continuously running MOH' on my key system
as well.  Would it take a sound card in the asterisk box?  Is it even
possible?
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: voip-bounces at ckts.info [mailto:voip-bounces at ckts.info] 
> On Behalf Of Jayson Smith
> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 6:26 PM
> To: Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches
> Subject: [VoIP] Continuous music on hold?
> 
> Hi,
> 
>      I'm wanting to implement a continuously running music on 
> hold. What I mean is this. In a traditional Asterisk MOH, 
> when the last person connected to the MOH hangs up, the music 
> stops, and doesn't continue until someone else gets put on 
> hold. In other words, if you hang up on an MOH and call right 
> back, no music or audio will have passed between the time the 
> call was disconnected and when you connected again. I'd like 
> to have a continuously running MOH, which runs even with 
> nobody connected to it. This would allow for the 
> implementation of a certain style of centralized drum 
> recording machines from back in the day before I was born, 
> where when you were connected to the recording, it just 
> dropped you on the recording at whatever point it happened to 
> be, and the recording was running all the time, even with 
> nobody connected. Therefore, you never knew where you were 
> going to come in on any given call. I've thought of having 
> something dial an MOH context and just keep the connection 
> up. However, is there any way for Asterisk to dial into 
> something within itself when nobody real is actually making a call?
> Thanks.
> Jayson
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