[Asterisk-Users] Music on Hold Quality

[canuck15]

Are you sure it is the same thing?  What I heard when on hold with Digium
was the MOST annoying choppy music on hold I have ever heard.  It was
unbearable. I had to move the earpiece away from my ear until it stopped.
Kinda sounded like a machine gun except instead of shots ringing out it was
MOH snippets.  Very annoying sound. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt [mailto:mhoppes at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 2:42 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Music on Hold Quality
> 
> I have heard this issue when on hold with Cisco and Vonage... 
> I don't think it's an asterisk problem I htink it's a G711 
> "problem"... or gsm
> "problem".    Basically they are made for voice, and I think the music
> goes outside their encoding ranges... sound logical?
> 
> On 9/28/05, canuck15 <canuck15 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I was on hold at Digium and noticed they had that EXACT 
> problem.  It 
> > was REAL bad on the one occasion I was on hold with them a couple 
> > weeks ago.  If Digium has it then there must be some 
> inherent issues 
> > with Asterisk that need to be worked out.  I personally think this 
> > should be given a HIGH priority.
> >
> > Just my opinion as I am not a coder and cannot contribute 
> in that way.
> >
> >
> >  ________________________________
> >  From: Justin Selleck [mailto:jselleck at smoothfusion.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 11:19 AM
> > To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Music on Hold Quality
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Does anyone know how to maximize music on hold quality on 
> calls inbound from
> > PSTN?   I know that it is common to have choppy and static 
> sounding music on
> > hold when connecting via PSTN but how can that be 
> minimized?  I assume 
> > that the bitrates, type of music, etc can minimize the 
> effects.  Does 
> > anyone have any experience in this area?  Do you know where 
> I should 
> > look for more information?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> > -Justin
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