[asterisk-users] musiconhold restarts for every extension

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Benko wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I've upgraded from 1.2.9 to 1.2.14 recently but experience an
> unexpected behaviour with musiconhold: While in 1.2.9 musiconhold was
> playing continuous on sequential extensions after a
> timeout, it is restarted for every extension in 1.2.14:
> 
> ;music starts
> exten => 902,1,Dial(SIP/phone1 at proxy.com|5|m(mymusic)) 
> ;music starts again
> exten => 902,n,Dial(SIP/phone2 at proxy.com|5|m(mymusic))
> ;and again
> exten => 902,n,Dial(SIP/phone3 at proxy.com|5|m(mymusic))
> 
> In the changelog this is not mentioned, also the bugs related to
> changes in musiconhold.c don't seem to have anything to do with my
> issue...
> Is there a setting i didn't see which changes this behaviour? It is
> quite annoying for the caller and unprofessional if he hears the same
> moh-file again after some seconds, imho this is not a correct
> behaviour...
> 
> I recognized that this also happens in 1.4, which i'm currently only
> testing.

As I understand it, this is the way Native Music on Hold works.  mpg123 
based MoH does not restart for each call.