Hi gang, In 500 words or less (if possible), please explain what is a legal music-on-hold file? My boss hates the stuff provided with the distribution and I figure that I'm asking for trouble if I take my Les Mis tracks and run them through Audacity and SOX to make new files. Thanks in advance Danny Nicholas -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20110211/8a077a51/attachment.htm>
On 11 Feb 2011, at 22:37, Danny Nicholas wrote:> In 500 words or less (if possible), please explain what is a legal music-on-hold file?Depends on the country, and what licence you posses. Googling '<countryname> hold music regulations' may help. S -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20110211/4c57bcec/attachment.htm>
I am having problems playing files with the playback command, also with the Dial (A()) option this is the output from console: [Feb 12 01:58:41] WARNING[1569]: file.c:650 ast_openstream_full: File home/abejide/Desktop/a.wav does not exist in any format[Feb 12 01:58:41] WARNING[1569]: file.c:956 ast_streamfile: Unable to open home/abejide/Desktop/a.wav (format 0x2 (gsm)): No such file or directory[Feb 12 01:58:41] WARNING[1569]: app_playback.c:471 playback_exec: ast_streamfile failed on SIP/1002-00000002 for home/abejide/Desktop/a.wav This is the dialplan: [general] [default]exten => 1000,1,Dial(sip/1000,30,A(home/abejide/Music/moh1.wav))exten => 1001,1,Dial(sip/1001,30)exten => 1003,1,Answer()exten => 1003,n,Playback(home/abejide/Desktop/a.wav)exten => 1003,n,Hangup()exten => 1002,1,Dial(sip/1002)exten => 101,1,AGI(agi://127.0.0.1/adhearsion)exten => 1,1,Dial(sip/1000,10)exten => 1,n,Playback(vm-nobodyavail)exten => 1,n,Hangup()exten => 2,1,Answerexten => 2,n,Record(/tmp/a.gsm,3,30)exten => 2,n,Wait(2)exten => 2,n,Playback(/tmp/a.gsm)exten => 2,n,Hangup() Best Regards, ABEJIDE, Ayodele A. (CCNA) +2348039269311 "Before long, paying for a phone call will be as alien as paying for email" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20110212/67d762dc/attachment.htm>
On Friday 11 February 2011 16:37:49 Danny Nicholas wrote:> Hi gang, > > In 500 words or less (if possible), please explain what is a > legal music-on-hold file? My boss hates the stuff provided with the > distribution and I figure that I'm asking for trouble if I take my Les > Mis tracks and run them through Audacity and SOX to make new files.The proper licensing authority in the United States for hold music is BMI (Broadcast Music Inc). If you use music for MOH which is not royalty- free, then BMI requires a payment for each trunk line per year which is using such music. If you want to use for-royalty music, it is very possible, but it will be a continual expense. Not paying the fees upfront will cost you dearly in legal fees at the point at which you are caught (it's really only a matter of time). bmi.com/licensing/entry/534929 For future reference, I now work for a company which gets paid with fees generated by the music business (including MOH), so fair warning: if you announce that you're illegally evading such royalties (note that the use of royalty-free music, as is distributed with Asterisk, is perfectly legal), you may get a visit from the BMI enforcement division shortly thereafter. -- Tilghman
And there is also ASCAP: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Also a smaller than either group: SESAC. Cary -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Tilghman Lesher Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 2:41 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] On-Hold Music On Monday 14 February 2011 08:23:08 Danny Nicholas wrote:> Might not be your question to answer, but if I did get a BMI > license, this would allow me to use "virtually any music I wanted" for > MOH?The answer is, as long as the music publisher for each piece of music has an agreement with BMI to license their music, yes. You can verify each individual title here: bmi.com/search -- Tilghman -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 04:37:49PM -0600, Danny Nicholas wrote:> In 500 words or less (if possible), please explain what is a >legal music-on-hold file?One source of explicitly royalty-free music is the podcasting community: uhort.no and podsafeaudio.com both have extensive libraries.
-----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Roger Burton West Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 9:06 AM To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] On-Hold Music On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 09:01:16AM -0600, Danny Nicholas wrote:>Thanks for the tip - got a "Norwegian translator" for "uhort.no"?Anything wrong with translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&e otf=1&sl=no&tl=en&u=uhort.no ? R No - my "google-fu" is just a little short today...