I wondered about using streaming content from the internet .. some is available for free and some site allow custom music lists. I thought it would be cool to access audio from elsewhere in the world and found that Reuters (the news source for a lot of media stations) provided streaming audio. Then I ran out of time and haven't had a chance to get back to it Jim Archer (jim@archer.net) wrote:> >Hi all... > >I have been shopping around and noticed that licensed music on hold music >can be a bit expensive if you want to assemble a variety of types. Does >anyone know of an inexpensive source? > >Thanks... > > >_______________________________________________ >Asterisk-Users mailing list >Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >-- Brian Johnson This is where my witty signature line would be if I bothered to edit this line :)
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 06:48, Brian Johnson wrote:> I wondered about using streaming content from the internet .. some is available for > free and some site allow custom music lists. > > I thought it would be cool to access audio from elsewhere in the world and found > that Reuters (the news source for a lot of media stations) provided streaming audio. > > Then I ran out of time and haven't had a chance to get back to it > >Could use something like streamripper to save the stream to a series of files in your moh dir. If * recognises new files for moh after start then it would just continue to play the next file in line. The you'd need a cron job to sweep up the older files before your disk filled up. --Karl> > > Jim Archer (jim@archer.net) wrote: > > > >Hi all... > > > >I have been shopping around and noticed that licensed music on hold music > >can be a bit expensive if you want to assemble a variety of types. Does > >anyone know of an inexpensive source? > > > >Thanks... > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Asterisk-Users mailing list > >Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > -- > Brian Johnson > > This is where my witty signature line would be if I bothered to edit this line :) > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users-- Karl Putland <karl@putland.linux-site.net>
Just got this from my TechTV newsletter: PATRICK'S PICKS FOR FREE AND LEGAL MUSIC ONLINE You don't have to download illegally to get great music on the Web. http://cgi.techtv.com/memberservices/newsletters?click=18285&release=2560 Karl Putland (karl@putland.linux-site.net) wrote:> >On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 06:48, Brian Johnson wrote: >> I wondered about using streaming content from the internet .. some is available for >> free and some site allow custom music lists. >> >> I thought it would be cool to access audio from elsewhere in the world and found >> that Reuters (the news source for a lot of media stations) provided streaming audio. >> >> Then I ran out of time and haven't had a chance to get back to it >> >> > >Could use something like streamripper to save the stream to a series of >files in your moh dir. If * recognises new files for moh after start >then it would just continue to play the next file in line. The you'd >need a cron job to sweep up the older files before your disk filled up. > >--Karl > >> >> >> Jim Archer (jim@archer.net) wrote: >> > >> >Hi all... >> > >> >I have been shopping around and noticed that licensed music on hold music >> >can be a bit expensive if you want to assemble a variety of types. Does >> >anyone know of an inexpensive source? >> > >> >Thanks... >> > >> > >> >_______________________________________________ >> >Asterisk-Users mailing list >> >Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com >> >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >> > >> >> -- >> Brian Johnson >> >> This is where my witty signature line would be if I bothered to edit this line :) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Asterisk-Users mailing list >> Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > >_______________________________________________ >Asterisk-Users mailing list >Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >-- -- Brian Johnson This is where my witty signature line would be if I bothered to edit this line :)
Good to know that distinction William X Walsh (william@wxw.org) wrote:> >On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 07:09, Brian Johnson wrote: >> Just got this from my TechTV newsletter: >> >> PATRICK'S PICKS FOR FREE AND LEGAL MUSIC ONLINE >> You don't have to download illegally to get great music on the Web. >> http://cgi.techtv.com/memberservices/newsletters?click=18285&release=2560 > >Free to download is one thing, but free to "perform" or rebroadcast >(Which technically music on hold is) is very different. The copyright >holder has to specific grant that right, which is what the "Open Audio" >and similar licenses cover. > > > >_______________________________________________ >Asterisk-Users mailing list >Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >-- -- Brian Johnson This is where my witty signature line would be if I bothered to edit this line :)