How many times have you been on a conference call and some other participant puts their line on hold, leading to their hold music making conversation impossible for the rest of the group? This scenario happens to me all the time and it drives me NUTS. I prefer no hold music, because I am often on conference calls, and I also usually hate listening to music on the phone when I usually have my own music playing in the background as well. And most hold music is really bad. However, there is a valid reason for hold music and that is to let the caller know via an audio cue that they have not been disconnected. So I heard about some really great hold audio the other day. It was the sound of crickets chirping quietly, every 5-8 seconds, seemingly randomly. It was actually just a 2 or 3 minute recording of a few different cricket sounds, recorded at low gain. It was unobtrusive enough to not interrupt speakers on the call, yet if it was for a single listener it was enough audio to be obvious that the other speaker was still "on hold". I have made some of the sounds in the past (tt-monkeys.gsm comes to mind) but at the moment I am pretty much tapped out for time and even trivial things like making sound files are difficult, though I can type messages to asterisk-users well enough, as I sit ironically on hold. Does anyone want to take up the task? While as usual I can't guarantee inclusion of any resulting soundfile into Asterisk, it would certainly get _my_ vote. JT --- John Todd email:jtodd at digium.com Digium, Inc. | Asterisk Open Source Community Director 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville AL 35806 - USA direct: +1-256-428-6083 http://www.digium.com/