[Asterisk-Users] Many music on hold files

[BJ Weschke]

On 5/9/06, Alistair Cunningham <acunningham at integrics.com> wrote:
> A feature we're often asked for in our ITSP product is to allow
> customers to upload their own music on hold, or to have it recorded for
> them by a recording studio with the latest news, weather, etc,
> punctuated by "Welcome to <customer>, please hold".
>
> Since there may be thousands or tens of thousands of customers, and
> perhaps 10% of customers may want this feature with a couple of music on
> hold files each, there could easily be hundreds or even thousands of
> music on hold classes. Having all those mpg123 processes running is not
> really an option.
>
> To further complicate matters, there may be many Asterisk machines. The
> music on hold directory can be NFS mounted. However, we'd prefer not to
> have to update musiconhold.conf on each then tell each Asterisk to
> reload the file. Something database driven such as realtime would be nice.
>
> Can anyone please suggest a workable solution for this?
>
> Something like:
>
> SetMusicOnHoldFile(/path/to/file.wav)
>
> where the file was accessed only as needed, rather than an mpg123
> process running all the time, would be ideal. This way our FastAGI
> daemon can look up the database at the start of the call, and set the
> correct file from an NFS mount.
>

 Use native music on hold mode. It will only use the resources then
when it needs to.

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