[asterisk-users] Format_MP3, Streaming, File Formats, MOH

[Robert Chadwell]

Format_MP3 appears to play MOH files starting at the beginning of each
file, using the .wav file format, making for some repetitive hold music
unless you alter the file itself to begin somewhere in the middle.

 

Solution: One stream that all users connect to - giving dynamic hold
music (tried and tested in A1.0x using mpg123 with some success, and
Icecast or Slimserver or Shoutcast)

 

Format_MP3 doesn't seem to stream, and the wiki is wrong about
streamplayer being used to play streams, as it is only used to play raw
TCP streams. 

 

There are many questions in forums on the web with no answers about how
to solve this dilemma, How do you get users connected to a
constantly-changing stream of music instead of streams starting from the
beginning (regardless of whether Linux counts them as one stream or not
where the processor is concerned)?

 

Hopefully, at the end of this thread, I will have enough information to
go back to these web-forums and post the answer. To get it started -
here is what I have tried that hasn't worked. In most all cases the
response is "Music on hold started", immediately followed by "Music on
hold stopped" with no sound in any case.

 

;[classes]

;mode=custom

;application=/usr/bin/streamplayer 194.158.114.67 8000

;format=ulaw

----------- Straight From The Music On Hold Wiki

 

;default => quietmp3:/var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3-dummy
-@,http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=7733&filename=pla
ylist.pls

----------- From the Nerd Vittles Tutorial with the -@ added because
mpg123 seemed to ask for it since the file was a .pls

 

;default => mp3:http://127.0.0.1:9000/stream.mp3

---------- From a forum of someone using mpg123 to stream SlimServer
(installed mpg123 v0.60 with no success here)

 

[default]

mode=files

directory=
/var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3-dummy,http://127.0.0.1:9000/stream.mp3

---------- Tried a 1.2 format

 

;default =>
quietmp3:/var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3-dummy,http://193.251.154.243:8000/

---------- Thought maybe it was SlimServer - so tried to stream the top
Shoutcast station

 

;default =>
quietmp3:/var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3-dummy,http://127.0.0.1:9000/stream.mp3

---------- Tried to stream Slimserver using the old format

 

 

Thank you in advance - I have been at this for a week now. How did you
make it work in Asterisk 1.2x?

 

Rob

 

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