[Asterisk-Users] Playing sounds while dialling

[Matt Riddell]

Peter Spikings wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Does anyone know a way of playing a sound while the dial command is
> running? I want to play a sound every 10 seconds while relevant phone(s)
> are ringing and have ring tones played to the caller in the gaps.
> 
> I am aware of the fact that you can play a class of MoH during the dial
> but I can see two problems with that.... firstly that the caller won't
> hear the sound from the start and secondly that ring tones may not sound
> right after having been encoded to MP3.
> 
> I've tried using Background but that waits until the sound has finished
> before the Dial command is executed.

Try using native music on hold with say ulaw files.  The playback will 
start from the beginning of the file.

-- 
Cheers,

Matt Riddell
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