[VoIP] Continuous music on hold?

[Shane Young]

In 1.4 the music starts from the beginning reading the file directly  
rather than through the mgp123 program used in 1.2

You could use the cosole channel to dial into a MOH extension which  
should get it started and keep it going (you don't need to have  
anything plugged into the console).  Anyone else getting put on hold  
should be dropped into the middle.


Quoting John Novack <jnovack at stromberg-carlson.org>:

> 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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