[Asterisk-Users] Does * machine need a sound board for MOH? (add to FAQ)

[Rich Adamson]

It may have been discussed many times, however searching the archives
with google many times did not lead to any clues. (If you don't know
you have an mpg321 issue, searching for moh problems did not provide
the clues.) Also, numerous postings provided many responses, of which
none suggested the mpg123 resolution; just about every response related
to some form of "exten => 3001,2,MusicOnHold(default)" variation.

It should be added to an FAQ (which could easily reference some
reasonable past postings).

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> For what it's worth, the Redhat mpg321->mpg123 trickery has been well 
> documented on this list.  See the archives for multiple references to 
> this.
> 
> Dave
> 
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> > Music on hold problem solved... needs to be in an FAQ somewhere!!!
> > 
> > After spending many hours trying to diagnose the MOH problem, it turned
> > out to be the mpg123 code from the RedHat site. My * machine is RH9 with
> > no mpg123 (or mpg321) installed by default. Searching the RedHat site
> > found the rpm needed, however RedHat has substituted an incompatible 
> > version without any notations of having done that. (The code that gets
> > installed is mgp321 with links that make it look like mpg123.)
> > 
> > The corrective action involved removing all occurances of mpg123 and
> > mpg321 from the linux box (including sym links), and installing the 
> > correct software from:
> >  www.mpg123.de/mpg123/precompiled/mpg123-0.59q-1.i386.rpm
> > then, "cp /usr/local/bin/mpg123  /usr/bin/mpg123"
> > and MOH worked fine.