[Asterisk-Users] Weird experience with MOH

[BK [address only for mailing lists]]

Hi

I thought I share this one, just in case this is an indication of some 
bug ...

When I was trying to use music on hold at first, I didn't bother to copy 
any music into /var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3 since there was a sample-
hold.mp3 in there which played just fine in a standalone MP3 player.

But after uncommenting one of the lines in musiconhold.conf and doing 
reload on the console, there was only silence when putting a caller on 
hold. Somebody told me I may have the wrong mp3 app (321 vs 123) while I 
was getting busy with something else and so I put this aside. Although I 
found that I did have mpg123 installed.

Yesterday, I copied some music files into /var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3 in 
anticipation that I would get this to work eventually and to my 
surprise, putting a caller on hold now plays the music. I have no idea 
why it didn't work at first, but it would seem that for some unknown 
reason, Asterisk didn't like the sole sample-hold.mp3 file.

rgds
bk