[VoIP] Asterisk won't play sound (voice prompt) files

[Shane Young]

It looks like it's trying to force you to use ULAW files rather than GSM.

I've never compiled Asterisk without GSM support, but the error  
message doesn't indicate that it's trying to play a GSM file.

Can you install the ulaw files?

Quoting Richard Lane <richardlane at exemail.com.au>:

> Hi Jack
>
> Using a bash prompt, goto /var/lib/asterisk/sounds and do a "ls -l ".
> This will list the files. Let us know what is says. It will be something
> like 741 or similar.
>
> Richard
>
> Jack Ryan wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I can't get asterisk to play voice prompts like those in voice-mail.
>>
>> Fedora 8
>> Asterisk 1.4.18 downloaded, compiled and installed successfully. Voice-mail
>> options on.
>> Sound files located in /var/lib/asterisk/sounds (just the english gsm files)
>>
>>  If asterisk needs a file I get (for example):
>>
>> File vm-login does not exist in any format
>> Unable to open vm-login (format 0x4 (ulaw)): No such file or directory
>> Couldn't stream login file
>>
>> asterisk doesn't say where it is looking but the file in question is in
>> /var/lib/asterisk/sounds.
>>
>> It can only be a question of "where" or "attributes" (both as per default
>> bild and install).
>>
>> What did I do wrong?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Jack
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