similar to: MPG123, Music On Hold and Variable Bit Rate

Hello list, after the last time that mpg123 wen ballistic on our production system, we decided to skip mp3 playback altogether and to go for raw files. After half an hour playing with mpg123 and sox parameters in order to translate a mp3 file to a wav file that can be streamed back through * with no need for an mp3 decoder, I thought I'd post the result to the list to avoid wasting

I have been having periodic trouble with mpg123. I have tried .59r & .59s and perhaps others a while back and still get the 'broken pipe' and zombie mpg123s (although I think I saw something about a fix in the changelog) once and a while. Is it currently possible to configure moh to run directly on the wav files? Now-a-days hard drives are so big, why use compression at all (at least

Hello, Using asterisk-1.2.1 I am trying to convert my music-on-hold files from .wav to alaw: % sox moh.wav -r 8000 -c 1 moh.al resample -ql The file sounds fine when listened with: % sox mox.al -t ossdsp /dev/dsp But when listened through asterisk with an alaw SIP phone the sound is clicky and too fast. Did I forget something in my conversion command? -- ldm@apartia.fr

I've noticed that native music on hold volume seems to be very loud sometimes. Is there anyway to turn this down? I know when using mpg123 I can set "quietmp3" but what about when using native?

Hi Guys, I am having trouble trying to get format_mp3 working to play music on hold. I have followed the instructions in the read-me and the wiki however it seems after un-installing mpg123, asterisk is not even attempting to play MOH. My musiconhold.conf is ; Music on hold class definitions ; [classes] [moh_files] default = >/var/lib/asterisk/moh-native ;default =>

I'm still getting a sementation fault with mpg123. I have tried different parameters creating mp3s the last from cd audio ... lame -m s --resample 8000 -q 0 -a --cbr -b 32 and several versions of mpg123. I have always created 8000 hz outputs. I've got other * boxes that don't use moh that have been up for months. This one crashes every couple of days - the verbose output leading to a

Is it true that asterisk 1.2.6 does not use mpg123? I just installed asterisk 1.2.6 and while I do have music on hold (through format_mp3?) I do not have an mpg123 process running. I seem to be having serious audio issues when going through one of my providers (and just through that provider) when using mp3 for hold music, however when using wav files it is fine. The processor is only at about

Hi all, I've got Asterisk 1.2.10 up and running on Debian using the back ports. I noticed that it didn't come with mpg123 or depend on it and I believe I read somewhere that asterisk now handles it's own mp3 playback? Is this true? If so I must have a problem, because I hear no music when putting someone on hold. When looking at the console when putting someone on hold, I see

I have read every thread, I have Redhat 9, Asterisk 1.0.6, 2 T1 lines connected via TE405P. Everything works great, except MOH. I added an exten with MusicOnHold(30), and it plays just fine. Conferences have music when no one is in. I have SIP phones. When I place a call on hold, the CLI give no indication the call is on hold. I have set musiconhold(default) everywhere, removed it from everywhere,

should I use mpg123 with asterisk 1.2.7 or should i use the native player asterisk has? the target machine will receive heavy load. also, has anyone succedded in compiling mpg123 in a dual core pentium with centos 4.3 ? -- ------------------------------------------- Erick Perez Linux User 376588 http://counter.li.org/ (Get counted!!!) Panama, Republic of Panama

Does anyone have an example for using a live mp3 shoutcast stream with mpg123 for hold music?

Hi, Does any one have any pointers on improving moh quality?? Symptoms are crackling and hissing as the sound comes and goes.. I installed mpg123 this morning.. I have tried various MP3's sampled at 160k, 128k, 32k and 8k and they all sounded terrible... The PC is a P4 so its got plenty of processing power.. I have tried a few different types of classical music (Piano, Violin and full

Type 'mpg123' at the Linux CL. (no quotes) If the version is anything other than 59r, you problem is solved. Go to the Wiki and search for Music On Hold. Do the install of version 59r ONLY as described in the docs. Cheers, Wiley -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Neil A. Hillard

Does anybody have a good source for hold music? I can see a number of companies on the web that sell royalty-free MOH, but they don't all provide samples. The customer service desk has requested "calming, not sleeping, but calming" and "this is a high-tech company, so make it 'techie' [sic]". Thanks, --Ernest

We're setting up asterisk at the office (really doing some testing right now) and it is going to be hosted on a dual G5 XServe running OS X. We're an apple certified solutions provider, etc. so we want to build all our stuff on apple hardware and software. Anyway, the last sticking point is moh and meetme. Is there any solution to get moh and meetme working on OS X? Meetme

Thanks Joshua and everyone, Joshua's solution seems a lot simpler and works well. Only one thing now - The reason I named the classes as I did, was so that I could select the class based on callerID plus extension. Unless I've misread it, I'm limited to 9 switchable classes via the "digit=#" option, is that correct? Or is there a clever hack around this? extensions.conf

When I configured this server, I did not do the make mpg123 option. Months later, I read about it and did it, as the client was asking about MOH. About a week later the server crashed, which it never has before. I believe mpg123 have a memory leak. What's the best way to remove it, and is there an alternative that is stable? -- Chris Mason NetConcepts (264) 497-5670 Fax: (264) 497-8463

Good day all I added the music on hold entry in vpb.conf and commented out default line in musiconhold.conf. Asterisk starts up with the default mp3 but as soon as I remove it and add my mp3 it just doenst start up and gives a broken pipe error? Please Help or advice Thanks ALtus

All, Can you use the global variables set in the [globals] section of the extension.conf file in other configuration files? Here is an example: I have a file called globalvars.conf that I include in the [globals] section in extension.conf. I would like either (a) that the global variables being defined in this section can be used from voicemail.conf or (b) that I can include the

Been using mpg123 for moh for the last two years or so. However, when I have * config errors, often times get a endless stream of console messages and need to kill the two mpg123 processes. Is there an alternative to mpg123 that eliminates that issue? I see references in musiconhold.conf relative to madplay, native file format, asterisk-addons, etc. Not sure why the asterisk-addon approach