[asterisk-users] Music on Hold and Announcements

[OCOSA ListAcct]

Wow seems a bit much?

I use 1.2.22.....yeah if you make it generic it would be nice and I 
would probably upgrade. I guess. The only other way to do this is to 
just drop the announcements and record a message on hold for a specific 
group with music in the background at the recording time.  So for team 1 
context [team1] and team 2 context [team2] and play various messages 
specific for the groups. Russell your a genius.....nice setup.

Otis

Russell Bryant wrote:
> OCOSA ListAcct wrote:
>   
>> Does anyone know how to have an ad or announcement playing but in the 
>> background play a MP3 file?
>>
>> I think this would be done with the "s" extension and background 
>> application but not sure how? Any help would be appreciated!!
>>     
>
> Interesting question.  I actually have some code that will almost do this 
> sitting in a branch.  The code actually started out as a joke, but I think I 
> could make it more generic to where it could be useful.
>
> Right now, I have two modules - res_monkeys and app_monkeys.
>
> If you load res_monkeys on a system, it will pick a random active channel on the 
> system once per minute and play the "tt-weasels" file to them.  This would be a 
> nice module to load on April 1st.  :)
>
> app_monkeys gives you a dialplan application called Monkeys().  Once you run 
> this on a channel, it will hear the "tt-weasels" file once a minute for the rest 
> of its lifetime in the system, while executing other applications.  I could 
> probably make app_monkeys more generic so that you can specify a frequency and 
> which sound file to play.  The one thing you can't do with it is turn this 
> periodic announcement back off.  I think I could add it, though ...
>
> Anyway, this would only be for 1.6 unless enough people think its useful.  Then, 
> I might maintain an unofficial backport to 1.4.
>
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