asterisk users - Feb 2011 - meetme conference & playback of random sound file

i have been trying to find a way to accomplish the following but have not
found a method in which to do so:

i am trying to configure the meetme conference (asterisk 1.8) to play a *
random* sound file from a specific directory prior to it dropping the caller
into the conference itself. i am able to successfully get it to play a
specific file prior to entering the conference unsure how to implement this
sort of randomization.

Is this possible? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

john jolly jgjolly[at]gmail.com
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On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 04:58:05PM -0800, John Jolly wrote:
>i am trying to configure the meetme conference (asterisk 1.8) to play a *
>random* sound file from a specific directory prior to it dropping the caller
>into the conference itself.
Absent an Asterisk-specific solution, how about a separate process which
would link a random file into a fixed pathname? (Fired off from cron,
perhaps.)

Roger

On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, John Jolly wrote:
> i am trying to configure the meetme conference (asterisk 1.8) to play a 
> random sound file from a specific directory prior to it dropping the 
> caller into the conference itself. i am able to successfully get it to 
> play a specific file prior to entering the conference unsure how to 
> implement this sort of randomization.?
Who is the sound file played to? The caller or the conference?

Please show what you are using now.

Would an AGI that selected a random file from the directory and set the 
path as a channel variable work?

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Check out the Random Application and the RAND function, Here is a
quick untested example for either.

exten => s,1,Answer
exten => s,n,Background(privacy-please-stay-on-line-to-be-connected)
exten => s,n,Random(33:${CONTEXT},s,FILE1)  ; 33% Num1
exten => s,n,Random(33:${CONTEXT},s,FILE2)  ; 33% Num2
exten => s,n,Random(34:${CONTEXT},s,FILE3)  ; 34% Num3
exten => s,n(FILE1),Background(tt-monkeys)
exten => s,n,Goto(Connect)
exten => s,n(FILE2),Background(tt-weasels)
exten => s,n,Goto(Connect)
exten => s,n(FILE3),Background(gambling-drunk)
exten => s,n,Goto(Connect)
exten => s,n(CONNECT),NoOp
exten => s,n,Meetme(options)


Or using RAND if your prompts are all numbered as prompt0 to prompt100

exten => s,1,Answer
exten => s,n,Background(privacy-please-stay-on-line-to-be-connected)
exten => s,n,Set(promptnum=${RAND(1,100)})
exten => s,n,Background(prompt${promptnum})
exten => s,n,Meetme(options)

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 5:58 PM, John Jolly <jgjolly at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> i am trying to configure the meetme conference (asterisk 1.8) to play a
> random sound file from a specific directory prior to it dropping the caller
> into the conference itself. i am able to successfully get it to play a
> specific file prior to entering the conference unsure how to implement this
> sort of randomization.
>
> Is this possible? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> john jolly jgjolly[at]gmail.com
>