[asterisk-users] Looped message playback

[John Marvin]

Earle Clubb wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to play an audio file to a phone an arbitrary number of 
> times.  The audio is a five-second segment of a sine wave.  I need this 
> to be played repeatedly without gaps between playbacks.  I've tried 
> doing this in the dial plan, e.g.:
> 
> exten => s,1,Playback(tonefile)
> exten => s,2,Goto(1)
> 
> but there is too long of a gap between the playbacks.  Does anyone know 
> of a way to achieve this?

Well, I don't have a solution for the general case (looped playback), 
but if you are only playing a sine wave, couldn't you use Playtones() 
instead? It has the ability to play a tone indefinitely until you tell 
it to stop.

John