[VoIP] Continuous music on hold?

[John Novack]

Doesn't this work somewhat differently with different versions of Asterisk?
Later 1.2 has a "native" mode which either plays continuously, or is it 
the other way around?

Or was this a change in 1.4
There was some discussion on the Asterisk users list recently regarding 
this.


John Novack


Greg Blakely wrote:
> 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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