[Asterisk-Users] Recording from AGI playback is LOW

[Rich Adamson]

> Jerry Geis wrote:
> 
> > I am doing a record in my AGI. When I play it back at that moment
> > on the phone it sounds just fine.
> > 
> > When I do a "play file.gsm" it is REAL LOW on the soundcard
> > When I send dial using IAX2 to another asterisk box and play it on Zap/2 
> > it is low also.
> > 
> > When I "play demo-congrats.gsm" on the soundcard it is just fine.
> > 
> > Any ideas why or what to do?
> 
> I'm chasing a similar issue (normal sound levels for calls and playback
> of canned recordings, but very low voicemail volume) and noticed that
> when I leave a voicemail the uncompressed WAV file is at normal volume
> but the 2 compressed versions are very low volume.  Apparently under the
> covers the system uses sox to create these compressed files.
> 
> My current theory is that my version of sox is old (12.17.3) and that
> maybe that level of the software has volume problems when converting
> files.  Tonight I plan to upgrade to a new version and see if the
> problem goes away.
> 
> As an interesting data point can you do a "sox -V" and report your
> version number?  If I'm right this may solve both of our problems.

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