[asterisk-users] Looped message playback

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

I have done looping playback and never experienced significant gaps.

Earle Clubb wrote:
> John Marvin wrote:
>> 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
> 
> I thought about that.  The problem is that I need to be able to play any 
> kind of tone (e.g. warble, etc.).  I'm only using a pure tone right now 
> because it's easy to hear the gaps.
> 
> Earle
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