[Asterisk-Users] A couple of newbie questoins

[Timothy P. Schlie]

I have a couple of questions I have looked everywhere for the answer and 
cannot find. 
 
1) Musiconhold.  I have turned on moh in musiconhold.conf, I have 
musiconhold=default in zapata.conf, and I have a Wildcard X101P thats working 
fine.  If I connect to the musiconhold, I hear the audio, but it's very 
distorted, like it's over-driven.  I'm running gentoo, and I emerged mpg123 
version 0.59s-r3, which I believe is the real player that is required.  The 
mp3 file sounds fine played elsewhere.  Is this some audio codec issue? 
 
2) Voicemail with multiple sites.  I'm running IAX2 between two offices, both 
with local ip phones.  I have set up to call the remote office when you dial 
that office's extensions, and that works fine: the IAX2 is set up right.  The 
issue is that I want users in one office to be able to forward vm messages to 
users in the other office.  The obvious solution is to run all vm at one 
office.  But when I try to get the vm from the remote office, I can't 
authenticate.  I'm thinking that the switch statement may help by connecting 
the dialplans, but I've not been able to get that running.  Switch might also 
help with remote extensions too.  Anyone have a CLEAR example of how to use 
switch?  All the ones I've seen are quite confusing.  
 
Any help with these problems would be very much appreciated.  Thanks in 
advance.